Youāve seen them in your feed: false reports of celebrity deaths, conspiracy theories presented as real news, promises of free iPads if you share a link, quotes attributed to the Pope that he never said.
Facebook (FB, Tech30) hasnāt hired a team of dedicated fact checkers to read every article. Instead, itās outsourcing the task to community members with a new feature that lets anyone report news in their feed as a āfalse news story.ā The more frequently a particular news story is reported, the less it will appear in anyoneās feed on Facebook.
The offending links, photos, videos and status updates wonāt be removed, just gradually hidden a little more frequently from view. However, if a story gets a large number of flags, it will be marked with a warning message that says, āMany people on Facebook have reported that this story contains false information.ā ….Ā http://money.cnn.com
