At the end of last year, Facebook announced plans to start dealing with accounts that spread false news on social media.
Now, Facebook
has just cracked down on 30,000 accounts found to be spreading fake
news stories or spam in France ahead of the country’s presidential
election.
Facebook’s security manager Shabnam Shaik says, ‘our
priority, of course is to remove the accounts with the largest
footprint, with a high amount of activity and a broad reach. The purge
will not remove all accounts that are spreading fake news, but we know
we have to keep getting better’.
The spread of fake news has raised concerns in France ahead of the the country’s national elections.
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