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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 promise to fight fake news is finally starting to work. Well, sort of. It depends on where you look. Almost two years after the company vowed to start taking its fake news problem ...

Fake news creates significant public confusion about current events ... Facebook says it will now make it easier to report fake news. "We've relied heavily on our community for help on this ...

Facebook has been struggling with the issue of fake accounts ... to the French national election in May, an event that allegedly also involved fake accounts linked to Russia.

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 ...