Here’s how Facebook plans to fix its fake-news problem - Recode

The general takeaway from the lengthy Facebook post is that the social network plans to be more proactive in identifying and removing fake news articles from users’ feeds moving forward. Until now, it has primarily relied on users to report and flag inaccurate stories. That will still be possible, of course, but Zuckerberg outlined a number of other updates that are apparently in the works.

A few of the potential changes:

Adding a warning label to stories that users have flagged as inaccurate.

Working with more third-party fact-checking organizations. Improving the accuracy of “related articles” that it suggests for users to read.

Blocking fake news distributors from paying to promote their content. (Facebook started that process this week.)

Building better algorithms to automatically detect fake news. “This means better technical systems to detect what people will flag as false before they do it themselves,” Zuckerberg wrote.