Facebook platform began to implement its plan to fight the news phantom and counted cross marking the news with the words "is agreed", so that the social networking network carried out its promises launched in December / December last confrontation news fictitious and false and strangle them to restore their credibility in front of their users started.
Show news, doubtful validity, or it's a fake, within user-specific newsfeed attached cautionary words along with links to sites examined fact explains why this news is not true.
Facebook and proceeded to make the reporting of news phantom process more easily than before, so that Facebook users reporting the story as fake as soon as the pressure on the upper right corner of the publication so Report published on that imaginary option appears, as can Contacted person who publication of the story or blocked completely.
Facebook and cooperated with organizations and agencies to check the news, such as Snopes and Politifact and ABC News and The Associated Press to verify the authenticity of the stories, so send the story podium to those agencies to verify its authenticity, where they are marked "not agreed" on the news in the case of classified agencies to fake it.
And it works for Facebook to provide a link pointing to the correct information, so that it will not only reference to the placebo publication, so as to prevent confusion that could happen with the passage of time, users can also exchange and share stories that are likely to be fake, but the platform will warn the user about that this news, publications and fake is incorrect.
Once you get the news on the sign "is agreed upon," can not be promoted, the company noted that the phantom material often sharing them much less than the other once read them once, and they are working on reducing the financial incentives to news sites phantom.
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