Facebook expands fact-checking programme to new countries to fight fake news
Technology | June 22, 2018 10:21 ISTFacebook has also expanded its test to fact-check photos and videos to four countries.
Facebook has also expanded its test to fact-check photos and videos to four countries.
Facebook suffered its worst public relations disaster in its history when a huge data privacy breach was revealed earlier this year.
With allegations of Facebook fanning violence through the spread of hate speech and false news on its platform piling up, the social network is reportedly hunting for people for its "News Credibility Programme."
Facebook introduced the Trending feature in 2014 aiming to help people discover news topics that were popular across the community. But for this feature that show a collection of headlines, the social networking giant soon faced allegations of political bias.
Facebook has quashed the reports saying that it limits your newsfeed to 25 friends' status updates.
'We're going to show more stories from news sources in your local town or city,' said CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook has jined hands with nine news publishers to launch "Instant Articles" that will let them publish articles directly to the social network's mobile news feeds.Instant Articles will let stories load more than 10 times
New York: Facebook is soon to launch a new feature that will let its users flag content like movies, music, TV shows and links for later viewing. ‘Save', the new function will let you move content
New Delhi: The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK is investigating whether Facebook broke data protection laws when it allowed researchers to conduct a psychological experiment on users of the social network, the Financial
Los Angeles: Actress Jada Pinkett Smith says it it not advisable to follow a set approach all the time.The 42-year-old actress posted a letter of advice to a friend on her social networking website Facebook
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