Facebook is going to combat the dissemination of false news – Atlantico.fr

Since the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Facebook is at the heart of the controversy. The social network is accused of having disseminated the articles of the fake news sites that were spreading incorrect information (but presented as real) instead of traditional sites.

If at the beginning, Mark Zuckerberg has denied these allegations and stated that Facebook had no responsibility in this election. Saturday, November 19, the CEO of the social network has finally confessed that Facebook had played a very important role in the election of the new President of the United States.

the war against the false information

But this is not all.

He decided to go to war against these false information disseminated on the social network. “We take the misinformation seriously. We must be careful”, he stressed, because “we don’t want to be the arbiters of the truth.” “Usually, we do not disclose details on what we are working on, but given the importance of this topic (…), I’m going to give you a preview.” Thus, in a long post published on Facebook, it unveiled a plan meant to limit the spread of false information on the social network.

Just like Google, it wants the fake news sites no longer have access to its advertising platform, Facebook Audience Network. “We do not factor or do not show ads in apps, or sites whose content is illegal, deceptive, or misleading, including false information,” he wrote.

“warning”

He also wants to invest in technologies to detect the false information even before they are reported by users. To do this, it counts on the support of organizations specialized in the verification of the facts, or that of journalists.

changes to the level of the user interface are also contemplated. The procedure for reporting a false news will be simplified. In order to prevent the readers of the “warnings” will be pasted on the news that have been reported as being false. The articles of brainwashing should not, moreover, appear in the suggested links under a post.