A nearly year-old Facebook event for a "simple maths competition" has been one of the most viral posts on the platform for ...

Facebook's transparency center has published its Widely Viewed Content Report, showing what people see on Facebook.

In some ways, it's a more insidious problem ... to target fake accounts. That may include detecting "repeated posting of the same content." At an event last month, a Facebook exec said "false ...

a source familiar with Facebook’s investigation into the issue told CNN. While the vast majority of the pages and events had no followers or attendees, some of the fake events promoting the ...

The event, led by Head of News Feed John Hegeman and News Feed product specialist Sara Su, began with Facebook ... to fix the issue (by hiring third-party fact-checkers, removing fake accounts ...

Now, Facebook is admitting it must try harder to fight the problem. In a statement first ... topics being shown are reflective of real-world events, and take additional steps to prevent false ...

Facebook’s fake news problem isn’t isolated to text articles ... While Facebook Live is often used for monologues, Q&As, citizen journalism, event coverage and entertainment, some publishers ...

Facebook made nearly $27 billion last year, but the tech giant can't seem to figure out how to fix its fake news problem on its own. Their solution: enlist a nonprofit that has successfully done ...

Every time another “fake video” makes the rounds ... truth to the ignorant whims of tech companies. The problem is, a business like Facebook doesn’t believe in fakes. For it, a video ...

The company's failure to produce a satisfactory answer on the matter came at an event Facebook organized in its Manhattan offices where the company aimed to tout its commitment to combating fake ...