This is a full implementation of a test Facebook started on October 5th, 2017 to see if providing additional information aided users in assessing the credibility of a news story that appeared in the News Feed. This test was one of several in response to the outcry that Facebook’s technology was fostering and helping spread Fake News around the globe.
The update will now display other pieces of information along with an article from a publisher under an icon that reads “About this article”. Once clicked the icon will reveal things like:
- A snippet from the Publisher’s Wikipedia page & a link to the page
- A section of related articles from other publishers on the same topic
- A map showing where the article has been shared
- A section of recent articles from the publsiher
- A section that shows all friends who have shared the same article
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