Facebook fights fake news with publisher info button

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Yeah, I'm not expecting to see these :

The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bozos. His other company, Amazon, has multi million dollar contracts with the CIA.

The Independent is owned by Russian Oligarch and former KGB officer, Alexander Lebedev.

The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp. who's executive co-chairman Lachlan's brother James is married to Kathryn. She works for the Clinton Climate Initiative.

I actually would _really like_ a service that did that. I feel like I'm googling badly because not much is turning up, because this sort of thing must already be useful in everything from finance to business management to reporting. Clearly you can do it on a case by case basis via wikipedia, SEC filings, domain ownership, etc but you've got me thinking about how one could scale this and release it as, for a stupid example, a browser plugin.

(Implicit in the above is a badly worded ask that if anyone knows of such a service I'd be curious)

I think is safest just to assume

1) this news outlet is captured by people who do not have your best interests at heart

or

2) this news outlet is run by crazy people

or

3) both

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