In a recent report, Facebook and Google announced they will pull out ads from websites that spread fake news. Now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is working hard to detect fake news on Facebook News Feed.
On Friday, Nov. 18, Zuckerberg announced how his company weed out fake news amid the criticism over Facebook's role during the U.S. 2016 election. There's a report released this week that showed that there are many Facebook users engaged with misleading stories than legit reports, CNBC reported.
Zuckerberg said that the amount of misinformation was small, however, the company took this seriously. He added that the company will work hard to enhance its ability to detect fake news.
Since Facebook and Google were among the outlets that being blame over the victory of Republican US elected President Donald Trump. After the storm of debate over spreading of fake news, the two giant tech companies announced they will remove ads from websites that produce malicious news.
A spokesperson of Facebook said they will update policies to prohibit fake news from earning money with ads in its network, according to Gizmodo . Although they find a way discourage webmaster to produce fake news, however, the company has no plans to remove these from its news feed.
How to deal with Fake News?
Tired of seeing fake news on news feed even you're not following that site but many of your friends shared this malicious news? Here the simple ways to deal with it!
In a list created by Recode, it includes, "Do nothing, "Leverage algorithms and artificial intelligence", "Put the computers to work," "Human curation by employees," and "Crowdsourcing."
Do Nothing
Zuckerberg mentioned in defense of Facebook, that "truth is in the eye of the beholder." So it means, not all content that might be considered false could be also false to the other people. However, people should be cautious about spreading unvalidated information to prevent further damage. Hence, Zuckerberg urges people to "do nothing" when faced with fake news.