Friday, June 22, 2018

Facebook Takes on Fake News

 


Facebook just recently 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." With the help from independent third party fact-checkers, who are certified by international fact-checking network, Facebook is able to provide reliable and accurate news to its users. "These fact checkers rate the accuracy of the story, allowing Facebook to take action on those rated false by lowering them in the News Feed" and, with this, they are able to remove the distribution of pages that exploit fake news. With so much fake news being so prominent in the world of social media Facebook is taking on the mission of removing as much fake news as possible.

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