Facebook Automates Effort to Flag ‘Fake News’ for Fact Checking
The Global Fight to Filter Out Fake News
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Facebook Inc. is taking a more aggressive step to thwart the spread of fake news on its platform.
The company said it has created a software algorithm to flag stories that may be suspicious and send them to third-party fact checkers. If the fact-checkers review the post and write a story debunking it or giving context, that post may appear below the original content on Facebook’s news feed, according to a company blog post.