Web Desk(June 22, 2018): Facebook this morning announced an expansion of its fact-checking program and other actions it’s taking to combat the scourge of fake news on its social network.
The company, which was found to be compromised by Russian trolls whose disinformation campaigns around the November 2016 presidential election reached 150 Americans, has been increasing its efforts at fact-checking news through a combination of technology and human review in the months since.
The company began fact-checking news on its site last spring, with help from independent third-party fact-checkers certified through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network.
These fact checkers rate the accuracy of the story, allowing Facebook to take action on those rated false by lowering them in the News Feed and reduced the distribution of those Pages that are repeat offenders.
These fact checkers rate the accuracy of the story, allowing Facebook to take action on those rated false by lowering them in the News Feed and reduced the distribution of those Pages that are repeat offenders.
Today, Facebook says it has expanded this program to 14 countries around the world and plans to roll it out to more countries by year-end. It also claims the impact of fact-checking reduced the distribution of fake news by an average of 80 percent.
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