Facebook now warns more clearly about pages that fail fact checks. The social media also takes action against users who often share false information.
Everything such users post will now be reranked, so that the nonsense appears less often in other people's news feeds. In principle, Facebook wants to remove the reach of posts from anti-vaccination activists, climate deniers and other conspiracy theorists.
Also devalue posters after postings
In the past, Facebook has already applied the reach brake to individual postings that demonstrably contain false information. Now we move on to doing this for the posters. Specifically, the distribution of postings in news feeds that come from personal accounts that have repeatedly shared content that has been refuted by fact checkers in the past will be reduced. Content ranked further down in the news feed should then reach fewer other users.
At the same time, Facebook is improving notifications that alert users to fact checks and the consequences of sharing known false information. In addition to a link to the fact check article, these now also contain a warning that users who often share false information can be downgraded in the news feed.
Warning about false information sites
The social media is also taking action against Facebook pages that like to spread false information. If the content of a page has repeatedly failed fact checks, a pop-up now alerts users if they want to like the page. This is intended to ensure that users can make better-informed decisions about whether they really follow a page. Ultimately, it is an approach to limit the reach of false information dissemination sites as much as possible.
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Source: pte
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