Many of the measures implemented by the main social networks, search engines, web services and others are due to the movements of big technology. For a few weeks, Twitter has begun to test a function that warns the user before sharing a link if you have not previously clicked on it to check its content.
Facebook, which has been known in recent years for blatantly copying all the functions of some of its competitors, also wants to fight against misinformation with a new function. Facebook has started showing a notification when a user tries to share an old post, specifically with more than 3 months old.
During the presidential elections in the United States, where as we all know, Donald Trump was the winner, social networks, especially Facebook, was accused of spread fake news, news broadcast by media related to Trump. This has always been the main problem of this social network, not only in the United States but throughout the world, since many users share links directly by looking only at the headline without taking into account the content.
Facebook lives off of advertising and being this its main source of income, it cannot shoot itself in the foot, but it can take measures that try to give the platform a little more credibility as the main source of information. According to John Hegeman of Facebook:
News publishers in particular have raised concerns about older stories being shared on social media as current affairs, which can lead to misinterpretation of the state of current events.
Some news publishers have already taken steps to address this issue on their own websites by prominently tagging older articles to prevent outdated news from being misused.
The elections are held on November 3 of this year, so probably in the coming months we will see more measures related to the spread of fake news.
