Fake news have ravaged the world for a long time now. This coupled
with the fact that the world is now a global village with such fluid
transfer of information regardless of distance, makes transmission of
fake news so easy. All it takes to go viral is to generate headlines so
artificial yet very interesting and before you know it such headlines
are flying all around the world as real news. But Facebook is clamping
down on this.
Facebook has rolled out a stretch of defenses against fake news. With
the new structure in place, once Facebook’s security team indicts you
of sharing fake stories many times, such page would be shut down from
advertising on the giant social media platform. Facebook is able to put
these prohibitive steps in place against fake news by means of
third-party fact-checking bodies. With this, Facebook is able to tell if
your story is false or not. With the already existing rules in
Facebook, advertisers are disallowed from running ads associated with
fake news. But this new step makes Facebook’s tolerance for fake news
thinner.
Via means of a blog post, Facebook announced that it is clasping down
on fake news saying “instances of Pages using Facebook ads to build
their audiences in order to distribute false news more broadly.” Fake
news can now keep a good distance from monetized pages. Once banned if
the page shows repentance and stops running ads, Facebook may pardon it
and allow it run ads again.
