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Saturday 20 October 2018

Facebook's fight against fake news is actually working. Sort of.

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Facebook's promise to fight fake news is finally starting to work. Well, sort of. It depends on where you look. 

Almost two years after the company vowed to start taking its fake news problem seriously, some of those efforts are beginning to pay off, even if things aren't moving nearly fast enough for some.

The social network has introduced a new series called "The Hunt for False News," which includes specific examples of widely shared fake news on the platform. 

It's partly a status update on the company's efforts to fight misinformation and partly an effort at instilling a bit more media literacy in users (assuming they think to check Facebook's official blog posts in the first place). The initial post provides three examples of fake news stories that have made the rounds on Facebook over the last several months: Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/facebook-fake-news-progress/
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