Earlier this year, Facebook admitted that social media platforms can be bad for democracy and that fake news on the platform was one of the biggest deterrents to democracy as we know it. The company has since been working on ways to make the platform ‘good for democracy’ and had onboarded a number of partners to fact check news articles.
He then highlighted the most common issues related to ‘fake news’, including fake identities, fake audiences, false facts, and false narratives. In order to combat the various kinds of ‘fake’ “we’re trying to develop a systematic and comprehensive approach to tackle these challenges, and then to map that approach to the needs of each country or election”, Stamos added.
