Facebook To Introduce Fake News Tools

Uploaded on 2017-01-25 in NEWS-Cybersecurity News, GOVERNMENT-National, FREE TO VIEW, TECHNOLOGY-Key Areas-Social Media

The world's largest social network said it would enable German users to flag potentially false stories. The stories will then be passed to third-party fact-checkers and if found to be unreliable, will be marked in users' news feeds as "disputed".

It is the first major expansion of the fake news features since Facebook announced tests in the US in December. "Last month we announced measures to tackle the challenge of fake news on Facebook," the company said recently in a German-language statement.

"We will put these updates in place in Germany in the coming weeks."

German government officials have expressed concern that misinformation on the internet could influence the country's parliamentary election this year.

Recently, the social news site Buzzfeed found Facebook pages were publishing false stories about German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is seeking re-election.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has also repeatedly warned about fake news on Facebook, and called on the firm to respect the country's defamation laws, which are stricter than in the US.

Facebook has been widely criticised after some users complained that fake news had influenced the US presidential election.

In the UK, MPs are set to question executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter about fake news amid fears it is undermining democracy, according to a report in the UK Sunday Telegraph.

Under the new measures, users in Germany will be able to select "It's a fake news story" as an option when reporting another user's post. They can then mark the post as fake news, let the other user know they think it is fake, or block that user.

Facebook will send potentially fake stories to Correctiv, a German non-profit body of investigative journalists, to check the facts. If they find a story to be false, it will be marked on Facebook as "disputed" and will appear lower in users' news feeds.

Facebook is already testing the system with certain fact-checkers in the US to verify news on its platform.

The fact-checkers must sign up to a code of principles to take part. There are currently 43 signatories, including news organisations in several different countries.

As in the US, Facebook Germany 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.

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