Spread of rumors has trailed the recently held US elections in the theme of misinformation and outright fake news on social media. US President Obama had even criticised the media’s role in pushing propaganda, as well as negligence of the social media managers at the back-end.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has now responded on what his company is doing, albeit on his own owned Facebook and wall this morning…
The last point listed says Zuckerberg will be listening to journalists about best practices for fact checking, which is good, because we have ideas.
It is will be easy to filter out fake stories. Some people can still label a real news as fake just because they don’t like it.