03/08/2017

Facebook Updated Related Article Feature Will Reduce Fake News Before They Viral

Facebook Updated Its Related Article Feature, New Feature Will Show You Anti Fake News, Reduce Fake News Viral 
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Fake News That Mislead People On Facebook And Links To Other Angels, Starting Today Facebook's New, Updated Feature "Related Articles" Will Reduce These Fake News Before Viral.


Fake News On Social Media Websites Spread Very Fast, And Take A Little Bit Of Time To Go Viral Over Internet.These Fake News Mislead Users With Wrong Information.Sometimes These Fake News Change Mind Set Of People Towards A Particular Thing.For Example-Previous Week, A Story Spread Over Facebook That A 16 Year Old Boy Get A Job At Google, Hired By Google, And Will Get 5,000 $-6,000 $ Per Month.When The Story Go Viral, Boy Comes To Headlines.But In Reality, Google Didn't Offer Any Job.This Was The Fake News.

To Fight Against These Type Of "Fake News" That Spread Wrong Information, Facebook Updated Its "Related Article" That Will Fact Check That News By Comparing The Shared News With Fact Checker(Other Articles/News Related To Shared News).
This Will Help User To Analyse Which One Is Fake And Which One Is Correct.When A User Post A News/Article Link And You've Doubt On It, Simply Take A Look At Related Article, Analyse And You'll Easily Know Either The Shared News True Or False.
This Will Reduce Sharing Of Fake News, Related Articles Will Balance Out Fake News.
Sharing Of Fake News Will Reduce With This Related Article Feature.



However, This New/Updated Related Article Feature Is Currently Rolling Out In Three Countries-United States, Germany, France And Nederlands Today.Facebook Opt Out These Countries First To Roll Out This Feature Because Facebook Established Fact Checking Partnership There.

Fact Checker Will Give A Signal To User Whether The Story Shared By A Facebook User/Page False Or True.Fake News Spread Wrong Information Which May Result Negative Approach To Users.So, This Feature Is Very Useful For All And Will Expand To More Countries Soon.

With Powerful Machine Learning Algorithm, Facebook Will Reduce These Hoax Messages.Seeing Fact Checkers' Articles In Updated Related Article Section Helps People To Identify Whether The Article They're Reading Is Misleading.

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Source- Techcrunch