Facebook to step up fact-checking in fight against fake news

Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 12:02 in Mathematics & Economics

Facebook is to send more potential hoax articles to third-party fact checkers and show their findings below the original post, the world's largest online social network said on Thursday as it tries to fight so-called fake news.

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