Facebook is
adding changes to its systems that will make it harder for fake news to be
spread and eliminate fake accounts.
The Menlo Park,
Calif.-based Facebook will incorporate patterns of activity including posting
the same content or a higher volume of messages than normal in an effort to
stop fake accounts from being accounted.
“We’ve found
that when people represent themselves on Facebook the same way they do in real
life, they act responsibly,” Facebook technical program manager Shabnam Shaik
wrote in a post explaining the decisions. “Fake accounts don’t follow this
pattern, and are closely related to the creation and spread of spam. That’s why
we’re so focused on keeping these inauthentic accounts and their activity off
our platform.”
The changes
made to the system allowed Facebook to eliminate more than 30,000 fake accounts
in France.
In making
the changes, Facebook said it hopes to remove the financial component of
spamming.
“We've found
that a lot of false news is financially motivated, and as part of our work to
promote an informed society, we have focused on making it very difficult for
dishonest people to exploit our platform or profit financially from false news
sites using Facebook,” Shaik wrote.
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