The Daily Caller – by Eeric Leiberman
Facebook is launching a feature that will try to help users decide what news articles on its platforms are legitimate, the company announced Thursday.
The tech conglomerate is attaching “Trust Indicators” to certain articles shared on the platform, which will provide information about the publishers. Such details will include the content creators’ polices on ethics, corrections, fact-checking, “ownership structure, and masthead.” Publishers have to upload the extra information through the Brand Asset Library, which is listed under Facebook’s Page Publishing Tools. To achieve its goal, Facebook is working with the Trust Project, “an international consortium of news and digital companies.” Continue reading “Facebook Launches ‘Trust Indicators’ To Help You Decide What’s Fake News”
