Facebook had a tool to weed out fake news circulating on the social network this year but declined to deploy it for fear of offending conservatives, a report said Monday. “There was a lot of fear about upsetting conservatives after (the uproar over) trending topics.”‘Not true’A Facebook statement said that the claims made in the article were “not true”. “We did not build and withhold any News Feed changes based on their potential impact on any one political party,” the statement from Facebook said. In a weekend posting, Zuckerberg said dealing with hoaxes and fake news is complex. Read | Facebook, Twitter join coalition of media, tech groups to check fake news“Hey Change.org, scrap your loony petition now,” the posting said.

Source: Hindustan Times November 15, 2016 05:03 UTC