Facebook lays out new plan to crack down on fake news

James Covert, Laura Italiano
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:55:21 -0500

This is not fake news. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has finally admitted that phony news is a problem on his social media network, and he’s hopes someday to use artificial intelligence to root it out. Until then, Facebook has hired humans to do the job of policing his vast site’s news feeds, officials said Thursday,...