In October 2018, a number of internet companies signed a voluntary code of practice to improve the reliability of the news that are spread on their website by clamping down fake news, but also by cutting any revenue for accounts and websites who misrepresent information, taking down fake accounts and bots, having the reliable sources to be more mainstream and improving the transparency of political advertising on their respective website, before the European Union Parliament’s election in May of 2019. The idea behind this whole operation is to counter manipulation of the votes like in the…