A search on “Mike Pence” raises a parody.
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If you type Mike Pence’s name into Google, you might think that the United States vice president is running for president. (If you in fact click among the very first links that turns up however, a site called Mike Pence Is President, you’ll recognize it’s simply a huge joke.)
The website is plainly phony. It has actually an area called Mike Facts, with the bullet points: “Mike Pence went to college,” “Mike Pence won 3rd prize in the 1972 Indiana Junior Corn Contest,” and “Mike Pence has won seven (7) penmanship awards.”
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But since this composing on Thursday, the parody website either ranks at the top of Google search, or it is the 2nd search engine result, ideal below a carousel of newspaper article and Pence’s Wikipedia entry.
The website was apparently produced as an April Fools’ joke by the site Funny or Die and resurfaced after Scott Dworkin, a Democratic strategist, tweeted it out recently, according to New YorkMagazine People on Twitter quickly started questioning if the vice president’s site was hacked. (It wasn’t.)
Yet the reality that the website climbed up all the method to the top of Google is noteworthy, specifically as the business attempts to fight the spread of phony news on its services. For example, after the Parkland shooting in February, searches on Google- owned YouTube indicated videos declaring survivor David Hogg was a crisis star.
Representatives from Google and the White House didn’t instantly react to ask for remark.
The parody Pence website has actually resurfaced as huge tech platforms have actually openly battled with their reaction to Alex Jones, a prominent analyst understood for pressing conspiracy theories. Facebook, YouTube and Apple have actually prohibited Jones from a few of their platforms. On Wednesday, Twitter stated it was offering Jones a seven-day suspension, removing his capability to tweet.
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