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Facebook takes its fake news fight to Germany

January 16, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 Facebook is expanding its trial of measures to combat fake news beyond the U.S. for the…

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Facebook needs to crack down on fake “Live” videos

January 6, 2017
Josh Constine

 Was that space walk or climb of a massive antenna tower really shot on Facebook Live?…

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Consider ethics when designing new technologies

December 31, 2016
Gillian Christie,Derek Yach

 In the weeks since the U.S. presidential election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been firefighting. Not…

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Crunch Report | Super Mario Run Hits the App Store

December 15, 2016
Khaled "Tito" Hamze

Super Mario Run is now in the App Store, Instagram passes 600 million users, Facebook hits…

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Facebook now flags and down-ranks fake news with help from outside fact checkers

December 15, 2016
Josh Constine

 Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six…

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Trump fires a member of his transition team for tweeting fake news

December 6, 2016
Lora Kolodny

 So-called fake news has real consequences, and everyone in the U.S. keeps learning that the hard…

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Facebook begins asking users to rate articles’ use of ‘misleading language’

December 5, 2016
Devin Coldewey

 A survey asking users about “misleading language” in posts is the latest indication that Facebook is…