Facebook Fake News Detector: No More Fake News

Facebook Fake News Detector: No More Fake News 

Facebook decided to slap to the peoples who are spreading fake news on Facebook. Providing a wrong information about anything is also a crime. So Facebook have decided to combat against the sources which are involved in spreading wrong information or Fake news.

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Tech crunch news technology website reported that Facebook is testing a tool which will labeled the news as it is a true news or a fake one. Before many of peoples were thought that Facebook is testing a tool named as B.S Detector which will detect the provided news is belong to a trusted news source or not. 


But latter on Tech Crunch updated the story and told the peoples that Facebook is yet did not disclosed that how they are conducting the test which identifies the fake news on Facebook. However we just  only become to know that Facebook is conducting this test from a small amount of user, almost 1.79 Billion users. However this information indicates that Facebook is really working against the Fake news and will curb the fake news from Facebook soon.

Tech Crunch also reported that they are able to identify a news which is flagged by Facebook as "Fake news" , they able to see a warning on a news feed which is " The website is not a reliable news source"  "Reason: Classification Pending" as shown in the screen shoot below,

Screen Shot By Tech Crunch

The above screen shots showing a warning label on a fake news shared by occupydemocrats.com about veterans are forming a “human shield” around protesters at Standing Rock.

Tech Crunch investigated about that news and become to know that the News is "True" in Reality. As that news was also taken by the New York Times. 


The tool named as B.S Detector which is basically a chrome extension is working from almost a week, many of users have reported that "The Tool is really working it vanishing the fake news from the news feeds as they are appearing". 


But this fake news detector tool is not any builtin feature of Facebook, it is an chrome extension there is no role of Facebook in functioning of that tool. But The case is still under study that How Facebook will Curb the Fake News or It will work right or not. 

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