Facebook said it was prepared to fight the fake news problem that has taken over its platform, and now it’s putting some muscle behind that promise with new features that help users differentiate true from false.
Now when you spot a fake story being circulated in your News Feed, you can report it by clicking on the upper-right corner of the post and selecting “It’s a fake news story” as the reason you’re flagging it. Facebook will take those user-reported posts and run them by four third-party fact-checking organizations that abide by Poynter’s International Fact Checking Code of Principles: FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, Politifact, and ABC News. If those organizations determine that the story is fake, Facebook will mark it with a “disputed” tag.
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