A trio of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have concluded that fake news travels at a markedly faster rate on Twitter than accurate information, in a wide-ranging study published Thursday in Science magazine.
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Facebook and Twitter are stepping up their efforts to combat fake news. as well as other issues.
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg is essentially challenging himself to do better at his day job as CEO at Facebook according to a blog post he published Thursday.
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Facebook is changing the way it identifies false and misleading news on the social network.
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Facebook keeps expanding its footprint in the United States. Next stop: Virginia. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, announced Thursday that Facebook will build its next data center in Henrico County, which is just outside Richmond. Facebook plans to invest $1 billion in the state in all. The company...
Read MoreFacebook is making it harder to profit off of smut, vice and fake news. The social media platform promised Wednesday to keep ads off content and videos that feature graphic images, nudity, violence or adult language. It also said that users who repeatedly post fake news may not be allowed to make money on the site. The new rules should help assure companies that their ads will not appear alongside objectionable material. But it also puts Facebook in the position of deciding whether specific pages and videos are offensive. The move could help Facebook to avoid problems that have...
Read MoreFacebook is continuing its quest to crack down on fake news. The social network on Thursday began rolling out “Related Articles” that provide additional perspectives and information on stories shared on News Feeds. These articles will appear below the link for topics many users are talking about on Facebook. They will also include articles fact-checked by third-party sites such as Snopes and PolitiFact, which employ editors. Related stories intend to help users think twice about whether a story is true. Last year, Facebook was widely criticized for letting fake news stories go viral during the U.S. presidential election. Since...
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