# More Fake News: Pakistani Minister Directs Nuclear Threat at Israel

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**Created:** [December 25, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-fake-news-pakistani-minister-directs-nuclear-threat-at-israel/775598 "2016-12-25T14:47:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-fake-news-pakistani-minister-directs-nuclear-threat-at-israel/775598/1 "2016-12-25T14:47:41Z")

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This Fake News thing is getting QUITE dangerous!

Reading Fake News, Pakistani Minister Directs Nuclear Threat at Israel…

> **[Reading Fake News, Pakistani Minister Directs Nuclear Threat at Israel...](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/world/asia/pakistan-israel-khawaja-asif-fake-news-nuclear.html)**
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> The country’s defense minister, apparently believing that Israel had threatened Pakistan, wrote on Twitter that “Pakistan is a nuclear state too.”

Note Germany is in the works of making fake news illegal…

Germany Wants Facebook To Pay For Fake News…

> **[Germany Wants Facebook To Pay For Fake News](https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2016/12/19/germany-wants-facebook-to-pay-for-fake-news/)**
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> Officials are worried that Moscow is exploiting Facebook and other social media platforms to influence Western elections.

Another link if the above does not work…  
German courts should go after fake news on Facebook now: minister…

> **[German courts should go after fake news on Facebook now: minister](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-facebook-fake-idUSKBN1470CN)**
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> German judges and state prosecutors need to crack down straight away on fake news disseminated through social media platforms such as Facebook, Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview published on Sunday.
