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Good news! Facebook’s new symbol to assist users to brand feign news
- Updated: October 7, 2017
In a pierce to assistance brand stories to read, share and trust on their News Feed, Facebook is contrast a symbol that users can daub to entrance additional information about where a stories came from.
The additional information about a news essay will be pulled from opposite Facebook and other sources to brand and mislay feign news.
The other sources are information from a news publisher’s Wikipedia entry, a symbol to follow their Page, trending articles or associated articles about a subject and information about how a essay is being common by people on Facebook, a amicable media height pronounced in a blog post on Friday.
“In some cases, if that information is unavailable, we will let people know, that can also be useful context,” a Facebook blog post added.
The pierce is critical in a arise of a Las Vegas sharpened where Google, Facebook and Twitter unsuccessful miserably to stop edition feign news on their platforms.
Facebook’s “Security Check” page — that lets people concerned with disasters and accidents post messages for friends and desired ones — published a blog post from “Alt-Right News” that pronounced “the torpedo might have been a Trump-hating American radio horde Rachel Maddow fan” in an apparent anxiety to a misidentified killer’s Facebook page.
Facebook pronounced a confidence staff saw a post and private it.
“However, a dismissal was behind by a few minutes, permitting it to be shade prisoner and circulated online. We are operative to repair a emanate that authorised this to occur in a initial place and deeply bewail a difficulty this caused,” Fast Company quoted a amicable media hulk as saying.
“The new symbol reflects feedback from a community, including many publishers who collaborated on a growth as partial of a work by a Facebook Journalism Project,” Facebook pronounced in a new blog post.
Helping people entrance this critical contextual information can assistance them weigh if articles are from a publisher they trust, and if a story itself is credible, it added.