Privately, however, the Guardian understands that fake news is being taken very seriously and has been debated at Facebook for months. Earlier in 2016, Facebook faced criticism for bias against conservative news after former Facebook workers revealed that its trending news team was run by human curators who were told to routinely suppress stories on conservative topics. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Zuckerberg said that 99% of all content on Facebook is ‘authentic’, which implies that the company knows which 1% of content isn’t. Plus we know that Facebook can already identify truly fake news – Zuckerberg pointed this out over the weekend. If you are to believe the top Google result for “final election results”, you’d think that Trump won the popular vote in the 2016 election.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 01:18 UTC