Facebook fact-check: all the fake news, from the Obamas to miracle cannabis
Summary: This article explains the bogus stories, click-baits and disinformation framed as trending 'news; by one the most powerful companies; Facebook. Since last month, Facebook had said they would join Twiiter and more than 20 news organisation to ramp down the proliferation of fake news on the social network, conspiracy theories and fake news has continued since. For example, one of the stores being that last month Facebook promoted a link titled “Michelle Obama was born a man” – perhaps the most blatantly false claim so far boosted on the site – that leads to a 2014 YouTube video alleging the false conspiracy. The video’s entire premise is that Barack Obama once said the name Michael at a rally. In the two years this has been online, the video has got more than 1m views..
[] Adam Mosseri, the company’s News Feed product vice-president, insisted earlier this month that Facebook is not a publisher or media company.
My opinion: Every site on the internet need to get revenue somehow, if this is through getting advertisements on your site or through click-baits it will eventually get them get paid. Since Facebook isn't get much attention nor not many people that they ideally wanted to target are using this site, by bogus stores and click-baits could be something that keep people talking and gets Facebook current. Even though last month they had said that they wanted to stop these fake news that are the social network, it could just lead people on or as a company they didn't really mean it - the reason why i think this is because too many people post fake news, it would be a long process to stop them and throughout the time they said they will stop this more conspiracy theories and fake news has still continued, a month later nothing much has been done so i don't think they will actually live up to what they said.
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