The Wikipedia founder has set up a site that will attempt to tackle the growing proliferation of fake news. It was fake – the site found the original, undoctored image. Facebook’s fake news ‘solution’This week, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the social media giant was not “an arbiter of the truth”. Fake news bulletinsIn Ukraine, where Russian propaganda has been a long-term problem, there is a weekly broadcast of the show StopFake News, which contains only that week’s fake news. On Twitter, @PicPedant (“punctilious internet killjoy at the forefront of the New Debunkonomy”) is one example of an account that uncovers fake and unattributed photographs.

Source: The Guardian April 25, 2017 17:26 UTC