Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Facebook "war" false news


Social network, Facebook, has announced the initiation of measures to prevent spread of false news, in response to growing pressure each time to fight against abuses that occurred during the US presidential campaign.

On December 15, Facebook announced that its users can mark the page issues in the news they see on their profiles, as well as false information, while simultaneously will enhance cooperation with organizations such as ABC News and the Associated Press, the Site order to identify authentic.

If media companies identify an item as forgery, Facebook pledged that such texts will be marked as "disputed", along with the link that will be placed in, which explains why it is such a decision.

The company with about 1.8 billion users worldwide, such items would set me down in the block of news, and when one of them is verified as false news then the latter is unable to hold an important place in the list of news .

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