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Facebook has announced new features to help combat fabricated news stories on the world’s largest social network.<\/p>\n

New reporting features are being rolled out, along with other changes designed to combat the spread of misinformation.<\/p>\n

Facebook was widely criticised last month after some users complained that fake news had influenced the US presidential election.<\/p>\n

The new features include the ability to flag fake stories, as well as possible future changes to Facebook’s algorithm.<\/p>\n

“We believe in giving people a voice and that we cannot become arbiters of truth ourselves, so we’re approaching this problem carefully,” the company said in its announcement.<\/p>\n

The social network has added a new option titled “it’s a fake news story” to its reporting feature, which is currently used for spam or other “annoying” content.<\/p>\n

It is also introducing a label for “disputed” stories, which it says it will refer to third-party fact-checking organisations.<\/p>\n

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Facebook released screenshots of its new reporting system<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fact-checkers must sign up to a code of principles to take part.<\/p>\n

There are currently 43 signatories, including news organisations in several different countries. Poynter, which operates the scheme, said it was “rethinking” the application process in light of Facebook’s decision.<\/p>\n

Facebook said stories which turned out to be fake after fact-checking would be labelled with a link explaining why, and they could also appear lower in people’s social feed.<\/p>\n

Disputed stories will also warn users before they share a story which could be fake.<\/p>\n

The company said it was looking at other possible future features.<\/p>\n

One would examine if people were “significantly less likely” to share a post after actually reading the article. Facebook said it would attempt to discover if people who read a story, but then did not share it with their friends, were misled in some way.<\/p>\n

Facebook also said it was looking into penalising websites which tried to mimic major publishers, or misled readers into thinking they were a well-known news source.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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