The controversy that followed the presidential election in the US has forced Facebook to announce some measures against false articles.
The presidential election in the US is certainly over, but the controversy about the misinformation that has circulated on social networks (including Facebook, which would have helped a little Donald Trump) is just beginning.
The CEO of the social network still insists that misinformation is only a meager share of the content that is shared on Facebook (99% of the information would not be false), but face all the reactions that followed the election Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg decided to announce some steps that Facebook intends to apply to "take responsibility".
Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network has always fought the fake news. And as he explains, "anyone can post a link as false." These signals allow Facebook to spot misinformation, and more specialized sites in the fact-checking as Snopes, the United States.
Finally, what the company suggests is that the new measures announced are only changing those that have already been taken previously. The CEO also explains that generally, this kind of update news feed should not be an announcement as early. But to meet the different articles that accused Facebook of being one of the causes of the victory of Donald Trump, he made an exception.
Facebook and promises to improve its hoaxes detection tools, technically, and facilitate reporting of them by social network users. On the other hand, if he clearly intends to prohibit the publication of these articles misinformation, he plans to set up a warning system on items that have been reported as false. Otherwise, Facebook also plans to clean up its feature "stories" that suggests other items to the user in following the links on the newsfeed.
It should be noted that Facebook and Google have already taken the initiative to deprive the false sites advertising revenues, excluding their networks of advertisers. Both these tech giants have made a decision to 'hit where it hurts, the wallet'.
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