Facebook details effort to stem tide of fake news

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German politicians want €500k fines if Facebook fails to remove fake news within 24hrs — RT News


German politicians want €500k fines if Facebook fails to remove fake news within 24hrs — RT News
- The parliamentary chairman of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), Thomas Oppermann, has asserted that social media giants like Facebook should be required to remove fake news and illegal posts within 24 hours or face fines up to €500,000 ($522,000)."Facebook has not used the opportunity to effectively regulate the issue of complaint management itself," Oppermann said in an interview with Der Spiegel on Friday.Therefore, "market dominating platforms like Facebook will be legally required to build a legal protection office in Germany, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," he added.
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Facebook details effort to stem tide of fake news


Facebook details effort to stem tide of fake news
- NEW YORK — For weeks, Facebook has been questioned about its role in spreading fake news.Now the company has mounted its most concerted effort to combat the problem.Facebook said Thursday it had begun a series of experiments to limit misinformation on its site.
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FactCheck.org will join Facebook to identify fake news


FactCheck.org will join Facebook to identify fake news
- Politics FactCheck.org will join Facebook to identify fake newsIn response to heightened public concern over viral fake news, the Annenberg Public Policy Center announced on Thursday that its political fact checking website, FactCheck.org, will be among the fact-checking organizations to identify and label fake news stories flagged by Facebook users.FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and winner of the 2016 Webby Award for best politics website, will be notified when stories have been flagged by Facebook users as questionable and will then provide Facebook with links to fact-checking articles if a story's claims are false.These debunked stories may then be flagged as "disputed," appear lower in the news feed and be accompanied by a link to a fact-checking story.
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