“In an ideal world, Facebook’s News Feed would consists of great stories shared by people with unique points of view with thoughtful discussion taking place in the comments. In practice, it’s pretty much just a collection of your uncle’s conspiracy theories about how the government is run by lizard people. Facebook finally wants to change that.
Starting today, users will be able to help Facebook spot hoaxes and hopefully stop the spread of bad information. Using the Report Post feature, users will now have the option to mark a story as false news. When a number of people have reported the story as inaccurate and full of dirty lies, Facebook will add an annotation to warn users that many others have reported it as fake.
Rather than rely simply on user-reported accounts, which will no doubt consist of people trying to tag news stories as inaccurate when in actuality they just don’t agree with it, Facebook will also contribute to the cause by tracking how often stories are deleted.”
Read more here: http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-bad-news-crackdown/
John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77), and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) of The Young Turks discuss.
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I tried the TYTNetwork one dollar network subscription, and I think I’ve been billed for ten dollars automatically for the next month. I’ve turned that off because I am not seeing anything of importance being discussed on the Young Turks for perhaps the last week or so. And I couldn’t see any benefit to paying ten bucks a month. I didn’t get any added content.