{"id":8672,"date":"2017-08-28T18:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-says-pages-that-regularly-share-false-news-wont-be-able-to-buy-ads.html"},"modified":"2017-08-28T18:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:33:40","slug":"facebook-says-pages-that-regularly-share-false-news-wont-be-able-to-buy-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-says-pages-that-regularly-share-false-news-wont-be-able-to-buy-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won\u2019t be able to buy ads"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Facebook says it\u2019s taking another step against Pages that share fabricated news stories.<\/p>\n

The company has already been working with outside fact-checkers<\/a> like Snopes and the AP to flag inaccurate news stories. (These aren\u2019t supposed to be stories that are disputed for reasons of opinion or partisanship, but rather outright hoaxes and lies.) It also says that when a story is marked as disputed, the link can can no longer be promoted through Facebook ads.<\/p>\n

The next step, which the company is announcing today, involves stopping Pages that regularly share these stories from buying any Facebook ads at all, regardless of whether or not the ad includes a disputed link.<\/p>\n

Facebook was criticized last year for its role in helping to spread of fake\/false news. (The company is using the term \u201cfalse news\u201d for now \u2014 \u201cfake news\u201d has become\u00a0heavily politicized and almost meaningless<\/a>.)\u00a0Product Director Rob Leathern said the company has been trying to fight back in three ways \u2014 ending the economic incentive to post false news stories, slowing the spread of those stories and helping people make more informed decisions when they see a false story.<\/p>\n

In this case, Leathern said blocking ad-buying is meant to change the economic incentives.\u00a0Facebook is concerned that \u201cthere are Pages posting this information that are using Facebook Ads to build audiences\u201d to spread false news. By changing the ad policy, Facebook makes it harder for companies to attract that audience.<\/p>\n

Facebook isn\u2019t specifying the exact numbers of disputed links a Page can share before it gets blocked \u2014 after all, the company doesn\u2019t want people to try to game the system \u2014 but Leathern said, \u201cObviously, it\u2019s not a single instance. It\u2019s a repeated pattern of misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also noted that the ban on buying ads isn\u2019t necessarily permanent. If a Page stops sharing false stories, it should eventually be able to buy ads again.<\/p>\n

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