Facebook To Start Punishing Users Who Persistently Share Misinformation By Restricting News Feed Reach Of All Their Posts
https://about.fb.comFacebook is launching new ways to inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated by a fact-checker as well as taking stronger action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on Facebook.
Changes include
- a pop up if you go to like one of these Pages. You can also click to learn more, including that fact-checkers said some posts shared by this Page include false information and a link to more information about our fact-checking program.
- Expanding Penalties For Individual Facebook Accounts – will reduce the distribution of all posts in News Feed from an individual’s Facebook account if they repeatedly share content that has been rated by one of our fact-checking partners.
- Redesigned Notifications When People Share Fact-Checked Content