Here’s how Facebook plans to fix its fake-news problem - Recode: That will still be possible, of course, but Zuckerberg outlined a number of other updates that are apparently in the works. A few of the potential changes:
Adding a warning label to stories that users have flagged as inaccurate.
Working with more third-party fact checking organizations.
Improving the accuracy of “related articles” that it suggests for users to read.
Blocking fake news distributors from paying to promote their content. (Facebook started that process this week.)
Building better algorithms to automatically detect fake news. “This means better technical systems to detect what people will flag as false before they do it themselves,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Zuckerberg did not say when these updates will be active or available, but did stress that it won’t be a simple fix. “Some of these ideas will work well, and some will not,” he wrote.
Adding a warning label to stories that users have flagged as inaccurate.
Working with more third-party fact checking organizations.
Improving the accuracy of “related articles” that it suggests for users to read.
Blocking fake news distributors from paying to promote their content. (Facebook started that process this week.)
Building better algorithms to automatically detect fake news. “This means better technical systems to detect what people will flag as false before they do it themselves,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Zuckerberg did not say when these updates will be active or available, but did stress that it won’t be a simple fix. “Some of these ideas will work well, and some will not,” he wrote.