LONDON: Facebook announced that user has an option to report fake news stories that appear on their newsstands.
This works in the same way as reporting a story as spam, according to Facebook’s blog.
When user click to hide a story user also have the option to report the content. Stories that include scams, or deliberately misleading news, are reported two and a half times more often than links to other news stories.
Posts that are reported frequently will be annotated with a message warning people that many others on Facebook have reported it.
Facebook assures that “satirical content intended to be humorous” will not be affected.