A few months ago, amid much fanfare, Facebook started rolling out its new tool against fake news which warns users when they try to post fake stories on the platform.
The feature, announced in December is the result of a collaboration with "third-party fact-checking organisations" — such as Snopes and The Associated Press in the US and Full Fact in the UK.
However, that doesn't seem to have stopped blatantly fake stories from growing on the social network.
The most recent example is a story alleging that a baby "miraculously" survived twelve days after the Grenfell Tower fire in London Read more...
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