ALERT! Facebook will now block ads that spread fake news

Yes, the title says that Facebook is now going to block ads that have the tendency to spread fake news. In a recorded statement in this article states the pages on Facebook obtains reports of false stories frequently the advertiser will no longer be able to post ads. Earlier in this year of 2017 Facebook has been trying to dwindle on fake news. Facebook has also been trying to advocate about sketchy articles that you will sometimes see on a newsfeed. They have also been trying to prioritize content that is written at least 50 times a day from an individual on Facebook. As anyone can probably figure out that it'll more than likely be misled information aka fake news. The social media site has established a "fact checker" that labels if an ad or post is fake and will lead to you the correct information related. Recently, Facebook is already taking action on banning fake news websites to generate any type of revenue from the false post. The latest update according to the article is that it's still continuing its fight to battle fake news. The company stated, "Today's update helps to disrupt the economic incentives and curb the spread of false news, which is another step towards building a more informed community on Facebook." (Locklear, Engadget)

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/28/facebook-block-ads-pages-spread-fake-news/

FBI tracked 'fake news' believed to be from Russia on Election Day

An article was posted on August 4, 2017, by CNN. The CNN Washington was auditing social media due to the Russian disinformation campaign that was exploiting as fake news. The news source was analyzing the social media around the election last year. CNN claims that social media such as Facebook and Twitter was exploiting conspiracies about Hilary Clinton. From our knowledge of the news being presented on social media, the front page of a newspaper or on TV that President Trump claims that CNN writes fake news about himself. President Trump also claims that CNN is to be "democratic" and was on Hilary Clinton's side the whole time during the election. (Could be true could not be true.) It would be an opinion decision on what to believe. To continue from the article, on the Election day multiple sources have stated that many agents and analysts were at the Command Center watching the monitoring screens in the FBI headquarters to be on the lookout for any threats that could happen. According to the article, the FBI did not want to comment further on this story. But from reliable sources, this did indeed occur. The FBI analysts were watching the social media that were being behind the stories, and even the accounts were based overseas. According to another reliable source that is in the same investigation thought the accounts had an association with the Russian disinformation campaign. The FBI has claimed that it was "uncomfortable territory" because of the First Amendment speech protection even for the "fake news" that was being published. Lastly, on the Election day, top officials were distributing congratulations not to have issues with the votes. An Obama White House official had responded with a comment back with quite the opposite view stating the US Government response to the Russians operations, “a failure of imagination."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/election-day-cyber-threat-fbi-monitoring/index.html

First post

Hello, everyone!
I will be blogging about the fake news that occurs in Media and Politics throughout this semester. It should be a fascinating topic, especially what occurs in the news nowadays.