Facebook scrapping system of flagging fake news cause it had the opposite effect to what we intended

[FarCenter]

Facebook has been trying to combat the spread of misinformation on its platform through measures like putting a "Disputed" flag next to fake news.

The company will ditch this particular measure after finding this can actually entrench people more strongly in wrongly held beliefs.

The social media firm will stick to pointing people who read or share fake news to fact-checked, contextual articles.

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-drop-disputed-flags-fake-news-2017-12

[dlk]

1. The Only Real Solution to The Facebook Fake News/Propaganda Issue is Government Regulation

Without an entity to actually enforce the legal rules, chaos reigns supreme and Zuckerberg laughs all the way to the bank.

[underpants]

2. Who believes what they see on Facebook?

I've never understood that from before we knew about the bots and such.
Look at the source (both left and right) if it's some site you've never heard of it's probably BS. Now if, over time, you find this new source to actually be reliable or even really good compared to the corporate media then reassess - a good example of this is Vox.