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Facebook To Deal With The Problem Of 'Fake News'

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10:13 20 Jan 2018


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Facebook has announced new measures to deal with 'fake news.'

From next week users will be asked whether they trust what they are reading and seeing - with sources ranked according to the feedback.

Sources will then be ranked according to the feedback.

The less trusted will be slowly removed from our feeds.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wants the news we are seeing to be true.

"There’s too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today. We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective."

 


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