Facebook to Stop Showing ‘Disputed' Flags With Fake News
The Battle Between Fake News and Social Media Algorithms
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Facebook Inc. said it will stop showing “disputed” flags on news that third-party fact checkers mark as false -- a system it started earlier this year to try to curb the spread of fake news on the site.
The social network instead will show related articles to try to give more context around the potentially false story. Facebook is changing its response to fake news because academic research has shown that marking a story as false may “entrench deeply held beliefs,” the company said in a statement.