Thursday, December 15, 2016

Facebook now flags and down-ranks fake news with help from outside fact checkers

fb-fake-news1 Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth”. It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake news in the feed, make reporting hoaxes easier, and disrupt the financial incentives of fake news… Read More



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