Fake news even triggered Facebook's Safety Check feature

December 27, 2016 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Facebook’s Safety Check feature was the latest victim of fake news
Fake news strikes again.

Despite Zuck claiming fake news is less than 1% of what's on Facebook (seriously Mark?) it's own Safety Check feature was fooled by fake news.

Safety Check is completely triggered by the community, using an algorithm that identifies trending posts. A link to a 2015 article on the Bangkok Informer disguised as a BBC News article spread and triggered the alert.

But no… there's no fake news problems on Facebook. ;O)

Zuck post on fake news: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103253901916271

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