Fake News
Fake news has been causing problems for a while now and one of the worst things about it is that some people don't even know that something is fake news. It can sometimes be very hard to tell the real from the fake. A lot of social media sites or even sites like Wikipedia have been dealing with this problem for a while now. Why is fake news so hard to stop? Well there are a lot of different factors that make fake news hard to stop being created and spreading. Although, Facebook has taken a big initiative to stop fake news. On Facebook you can share links to your page and in the past when you did this you also had the ability to to edit the link previews. When they got rid of this feature it helped stop the spread of fake news, as people would go in and edit the link to say something different. Some Facebook user eventually found a glitch in this and was still able to edit the links. The person who found this glitch reached out to Facebook to let them know but did not get much back other than an automated response. Facebook's policies continue to change as they are constantly making improvements to their sites. What more do you think they could do to stop the spread of fake news?
https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/working-to-stop-misinformation-and-false-news
https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/working-to-stop-misinformation-and-false-news
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