TO fight fake news, Facebook will let the community decide which news sources should be trusted and which should be shunned. “There’s too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarisation in the world today,” company CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes in a Friday Facebook post. The goal has been to pinpoint which news sources are “broadly trusted across society,” Zuckerberg says. Facebook will start testing the change in the US next week and plans an international rollout sometime in the future. In a separate statement Facebook said, “For the first change in the US next week, publications deemed trustworthy by people using Facebook may see an increase in their distribution.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 20, 2018 18:56 UTC