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Sites are being criticized for not doing enough to stop bogus stories that seemed to dominate the election cycle. jericka duncan has more on this. >> reporter: when a satirical website headlined a story "pope francis shocks the world, backs trump," the fake news went viral. waves of false headlines on social media have turned readers into believers. this week, social media giants facebook and google said they will go after hoax websites by restricting ad revenue. facebook is also planning to launch a program allowing users to flag fake news. journalism professor jeff jarvis: >> the slope is ve...

An obvious suspect following alleged hacks into the e-mails of democratic national committee members, but these attacks seemed to dollars more than votes. >> the idea of launching a massive attack, but a ddos attack to disrupt the internet, could have massive economic impacts in the united states. >> reporter: ddos stands for distributed denial of service, an attack that chokes a web site with fake requests. this particular attack didn't hit any brand-name web sites directly. instead, it focused on dyn, a backend company that invisibly but crucially routs customer requests to web sites we know...

This weekend, the u.s. government gave up control of the so-called internet address book. tony dokoupil explains what that is and how it might impact the internet. >> reporter: no one owns the internet, but for nearly 20 years, the u.s. government has controlled the official list of every web site address. as of today, the government's control is no more. the job now belongs solely to icann, a nonprofit based in los angeles and advised by a global committee that includes china, russia, and iran. when you look up a web site, your computer looks for the information on another machine, like one o...

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We'll talk about that and how that might change the first debate. folks, we are less than three weeks away.