Facebook this morning announced an expansion of its fact-checking program and other actions it’s taking to combat the scourge of fake news on its social network. “It also claims the impact of fact-checking reduced the distribution of fake news by an average of 80 percent.” Facebook was compromised November of 2016 during the presidential elections and the fake news spread to about 160 million Americans. “The company began fact-checking news on its site last spring, with help from independent third-party fact-checkers certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network.” The fact checkers will rate the accuracy of the story and the lower the accuracy the lower they are on people's Facebook feeds and reduces pages that are repeated offenders. [1 image, 1 link, 2 quotes, 118 words]
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