The tool is also limited to pages associated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and doesn’t include other fake news purveyors. A spokesman told the Guardian that Facebook “will make a significant effort to alert people to the tool”, but declined to provide details. The social media quiz of 2017 Read moreThe company has ads on Google directing users who search “Facebook Russian” to its page on “foreign interference” which links to the new tool, the spokesman noted. Regardless of whether people learn of the tool and use it, the feature is clearly limited in scope. It is also unclear how an alert might impact a user who has already been duped by propaganda, she added.

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2017 22:52 UTC