Facebook said on Tuesday goal of News Feed is to catch up with your friends and things which matters to you, so Facebook has taken step to cracking down “Hoaxes” and fake news stories that can spread like wildfire all over Facebook . FB plans to filter news stories from fake stories and try to give more reliable news to user.
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Facebook said Facebook users have full control to flag a story as “purposefully fake or deceitful news” to reduce the distribution of news stories reported as hoaxes.
Facebook said it won’t remove posts identified as false and hoaxes from its website but such posts will likely appear less frequently in users news feed.
This update not only for figure out false news and hoaxes but user also spot such kind of false news and hoaxes. This update will apply to posts including links, photos, videos and status updates. This update will affect on publishers who are frequently posting hoaxes and scams will see their distribution decrease.
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