Almost 5.3 million people have shared, liked or reacted to Dutch junk news on Facebook at one time or another, a report by Leiden university researchers has found. The researchers compared 63 junk news pages on Facebook to 20 more traditional outlets, such as NU.nl, leading broadcasters, magazines, newspapers and shock blogs. Junk news items, the researchers found, get an …
NEW YORK — Facebook and other social platforms have been fighting online misinformation and hate speech for two years. Facebook, in particular, has pulled a major reversal since late 2016, when CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously dismissed the idea that fake news on his service could have swayed the election as “pretty crazy.” In July, for instance, the company announced that …
