Thursday, 16 November 2017

Facebook declares new tools to battle counterfeit news

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In its most recent endeavor to check counterfeit news, social networking giant Facebook is trying an element called Trust Indicators with a little gathering of publishers. This tool will give users a chance to peruse data about the media association of that story. They can share data including their ethics policy, corrections policy, fact-checking policy, ownership structure, and masthead, said Facebook in a blog post. 

These markers will then be qualified to show for individuals as extra setting on the articles they find in News Feed. As of now, Facebook will begin with these underlying Trust Indicators in light of direct input from publishers and will hope to grow this set after some time. 

"We believe that helping people access this important contextual information can help them evaluate if articles are from a publisher they trust, and if the story itself is credible," Facebook product manager Andrew Anker said in a blog post.

Recently, Facebook took off Disaster Maps include in India in an offer to enable groups to recuperate and revamp quicker in the consequence of cataclysmic events. As a feature of the exertion, Facebook will make information from Disaster Maps accessible to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), a non-benefit association taking a shot at disaster strength. 

Facebook will give numerous sorts of maps amid disaster reaction endeavors. Area Density Maps indicate where individuals are situated some time recently, amid and after a disaster.

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