Despite evidence pointing to the contrary, Mark Zuckerberg has vehemently denied that fake news shared and widely circulated on Facebook had any effect on the Presidential election, calling it “a pretty crazy idea.” Buzzfeed found that Zuckerberg was incorrect (or perhaps just saving face) by downplaying Facebook’s role in serving up false, hyper-partisan “news” to users by illustrating that in the final months leading up to the election, false stories had more engagements on the social network (meaning it had been liked or commented on by more people) than factual articles by some of the biggest news sites in publication. In response to such news as well as to a bit of a public uproar, Facebook announced that it would begin to combat such sites by expanding the language in its Facebook Audience Network policy to include fake news publication as one type of site wherein Facebook would not display ads. “We have updated the policy to explicitly clarify that this applies to fake news,” a Facebook spokesman said in a statement picked up by the New York Times. “Our team will continue to closely vet all prospective publishers and monitor existing ones to ensure compliance.” That move, however, will… Read full this story
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