The challenge of fake and misleading news has come to the fore in the wake of the US presidential election. “Although Mark Zuckerberg is being polite about it, there’s absolutely no way that Facebook will start preventing people from sharing what they want to share. Legacy newspapers, digital media ventures, sponsored content and social media clamor for our attention,” the project’s leaders, Richard Gingras and Sally Lehrman, said when it launched. “There’s very high trust of Fox News among conservatives who say they don’t trust the media in general. “We’ve been talking to social media including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to get them on board, and they’ve all expressed a lot of interest.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 23:52 UTC