“Are Jews evil? It’s not a question I’ve ever thought of asking. I hadn’t gone looking for it. But there it was. I press enter. A page of results appears. This was Google’s question. And this was Google’s answer: Jews are evil.” We’ve spent a lot of time talking about the spread of fake news. But as The Guardian’s Carole Cadwalladr found out, there’s also been a concerted and quite effective effort to distort what you see in Google autocomplete and search results. Here’s more on Google, democracy and the truth about internet search. (The bad news: There are people who dedicate their lives to creating fake stories and messages of hate. The worse news: There are millions of people susceptible to believing it.)

+ Just hours after The Guardian’s article was published, Google tweaked its autocomplete to remove some of the offensive search suggestions. That move will bring up questions about free speech and where we draw the line in such cases.

+ A ridiculous fake news story about Hillary Clinton and an imaginary pedophilia ring has made a DC pizza restaurant a target on social media. Over the weekend, it turned the restaurant into a crime scene as well, when a guy armed with an AR-15 showed up to self-investigate the issue.

+ Buzzfeed: How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind “Pizzagate” Was Spread.

+ News isn’t the only thing that’s fake these days. From WaPo: Mobsters ran a fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana for 10 years.