Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook will do more to tackle fake news while continuing to argue that the spread of hoax stories on the social network did not affect the result of the US election. In a post on his Facebook profile late on Saturday, Zuckerberg said Facebook hoped to announce new measures to tackle fake stories “soon”. He wrote: “Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic. Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other.”“That said, we don’t want any hoaxes on Facebook. We have already launched work enabling our community to flag hoaxes and fake news, and there is more we can do here.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2016 11:03 UTC