How People Help Fight False News — newsroom.fb.com

To fight the spread of false news, Facebook uses a mix of technological solutions, human reviewers, and educational programs that promote news literacy. The Facebook community plays an important role, too: people can give feedback that a post on Facebook contains false news by clicking the three dots at the top of the post. But how does Facebook use that information? To rank posts in your News Feed, Facebook looks at thousands of different data points, or signals, about the posts that have been shared by your community, including the people you’re friends with and the Pages you follow. Signals include a wide range of things, from how old a given post is and who posted it to little things, like how fast your internet connection is right now or what kind of phone you’re using.

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