Facebook hopes you wouldn’t notice fake news by shrinking links to them

Facebook is continuing its battle against fake news and its latest attempt is lessening the “visual prominence” of these false stories on your timeline. At the same time, the social network will be giving an accurate story more attention with larger images and bolder text. How is the company able to weed out the fake news? Facebook is making use of machine learning to help with its fact checking. It’ll scan new articles for any false claims and prioritizes the suspicious ones for the company’s human reviewers to handle. This move will not only help them save time but also help them catch the fake news easily. While we don’t know the efficacy of this new approach, it does, as Engadget points out, shows that it’s trying to balance being able to fight fake news and avoid more controversy but at the same time not block content unless they really need to.