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[Daily Report: Facebook vs. Fake News]
[Pope Francis endorsed Donald J. Trump] for president. [Hillary Clinton ran a child trafficking ring] out of a Washington pizzeria. Both of these were actually fake news articles that circulated widely online, including on the worldâs biggest social network, Facebook.
Facebook is now taking steps to limit the misinformation on its site. On Thursday, [Mike Isaac reports], the company began a series of experiments to better identify, flag and reduce the prominence of false articles, as well as making ad changes to hurt the bottom lines of fake news purveyors. If the tests are successful, they will be rolled out to a bigger audience, the company said.
The new measures include partnering with groups that can help fact-check articles. If an article is deemed fake, it will carry a âdisputedâ designation on Facebook. If people still want to share it, they will see a pop-up that reminds them that the veracity of the information is in question. [In an interview], James Goldston, the president of ABC News, which is one of the groups that will be doing the fact-checking, explained how the partnership would work.
Facebookâs efforts are unlikely to stem the mushrooming of fake news, which also proliferates beyond the social network. And the company is walking a fine line of potentially discarding its position as a neutral player by intervening to ferret out fake news, some critics said. A Breitbart News article accused Facebook of working with â[partisan fact-checkers].â
Facebook acknowledged the balancing act.
âI think of Facebook as a technology company, but I recognize we have a greater responsibility than just building technology that information flows through,â Mark Zuckerberg, the companyâs chief executive, wrote in a [post]on Thursday. âWe have a responsibility to make sure Facebook has the greatest positive impact on the world.â
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[Facebook Mounts Effort to Limit Tide of Fake News]
By MIKE ISAAC
Facebook said on Thursday that it had begun introducing a series of experiments to limit misinformation and false articles on its site.
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[How the Fact-Checking Partnership Will Work]
By MIKE ISAAC
James Goldston, the president of ABC News, on how his organization will help the social network try to root out misinformation.
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Runa Sandvik, The New York Timesâs director of information security in the newsroom, and Nicole Perlroth, who writes about cybersecurity and privacy, answered reader questions about cybersecurity.
[The Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference and Hackathon in New York last year. Yahooâs sale to Verizon could be in jeopardy.] [Hacked Yahoo Data Is for Sale on Dark Web]
By VINDU GOEL AND NICOLE PERLROTH
A security researcher says hackers are offering records of more than 1 billion users, but as with the companyâs stock, the price is dropping.
[Robert E. Anderson Jr., center, served until last year as the F.B.I.âs most senior executive overseeing computer investigations.] [U.S. Faces Tall Hurdles in Detaining or Deterring Russian Hackers]
By ADAM GOLDMAN AND MATT APUZZO
Russia says American efforts to capture hackers may violate international law and has shown that it will not be easily influenced by public shaming.
[⢠In Case You Missed It: How Moscow Aimed a Perfect Weapon at the U.S. Election]
[President-elect Donald J. Trump at a âthank youâ rally in West Allis, Wis., on Tuesday.] [Obama Says U.S. Will Retaliate for Russiaâs Election Meddling]
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS AND DAVID E. SANGER
âWe need to take action,â the president said. âAnd we will â at the time and place of our choosing.â
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The chief executive, whose entrepreneurial spirit dates to kindergarten, looks for employees whose eyes sparkle and who are not set in their ways.
[Ma Baoli, the founder of Chinaâs biggest gay dating app, Blued, in the companyâs office in Beijing last month. The app has three million active users.] [Building a Community, and an Empire, with a Gay Dating App in China]
By JAVIER C. HERNÃNDEZ
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