Facebook Strategy to Halt Fake News Includes a 'Head of News'
Social network will ask users to be vigilant, connect them with fact-checkers, and hire a full-time Head of News to supervise the initiative.
Facebook admittedly is in quite a tough, and unique, position. While it is not a conventional news publisher by any means, it is in fact a 24/7 deliverer to as many as 1.8 billion users of a high percentage of the world's news and information as published by others.
It also happens to be one of the world's largest and most influential deliverers of lies, propaganda and scores of other scurrilous text and images along with legitimate news. Humans, love them or despise them, have been known to tell both truths and lies throughout history, and when profit motives step into play when espousing the latter, lying tends to take precedence.
