In a statement released today, Facebook praised this year's action in the hunt for fake news about the European Union, citing five totally fake news that it managed to detect and delete from its platform.
Considering that the decline in the number of fake news is always significant, and on the basis of the forthcoming elections in the European Union, Facebook has taken steps to limit the spread of misinformation by removing five thirty fake news releases from the beginning of the year.
This news was about:
1. The photograph of a letter purportedly written by the headmistress of a Dresden elementary school announcing that next week, four imams would visit the school to introduce the children to the Koran and Islam. According to the letter, there would be a "theme week" that would include a mandatory visit to a mosque and parents would have to buy a Koran and refrain from eating pork for breakfast on the day of the imams' visit. The letter concluded by saying that the school was happy to bring parents and children closer to Islam, as it is an important theme in Germany. The news broke in January 2019.
2. A video shared on Facebook in February 2019 and showed a man in a suit walking through the Spanish parliament and leaving small cards in a row of empty seats. The caption claimed the man was using Spanish national papers ID cards to register the absent MPs as "present" so that they can collect their daily allowances.
3. An article shared on Facebook in December 2018, by a now-defunct Dutch website, that listed 11 reasons to avoid getting the flu, including a claim that the flu can cause Alzheimer's. The article you cited research of Dr. Hugh Fudenburg, who showed that people who regularly get sick with the flu are 10 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's.
4. Τον Φεβρουάριο του 2019, ένας γαλλικός ιστότοπος δημοσίευσε ένα άρθρο που ισχυρίζεται ότι ο ΟΗΕ επιδιώκει να νομιμοποιήσει την παιδεραστία. Το κείμενο του άρθρου ήταν αντίγραφο από ένα παλαιότερο άρθρο που υπάρχει στο διαnetwork several years. The article said the UN is demanding sexual rights for children as young as 10, which would protect pedophiles from prosecution and imprisonment.
5. In January of 2018, a Twitter account that he said that he belonged to Ebba Busch Thor, leader of the Swedish Christian Democrats, who criticized those who criticized the Swedish pension system. The tweeter reported that every Swedish man gets the pension he deserves and that the unwanted alternative is socialism. The account, @EbbaBuschThorKD, was revealed to be fake and closed, but tweet screenshots continued to circulate. The screenshot was shared on Facebook in January of 2018 and began re-releasing in January of 2019.
Of course, all of the above is EROSALLY FROZEN. For every news there is a relevant report from Facebook about what is the truth and what is the lie. In particular, the photo with the letter from the school principal is fake and falsified, the gentleman in the suit was not in the Spanish parliament but in the Ukrainian one and he was giving back the identities μετά από διεξαγωγή ψηφοφορίας. Επίσης δεν υπάρχει πουθενά στο κόσμο κάποια επίσημη επιστημονική έρευνα που να συνδέει Αλτσχάιμερ και γρίπη, η δήλωση περί παιδεραστίας δεν ανήκει στον ΟΗΕ αλλά στην Διεθνή Ομοσπονδία Προγραμματισμένων Γονέων, ενός υπερασπιστή των σεξουαλικών δικαιωμάτων που έχει συμμετάσχει σε διάφορες επιτροπές των Ηνωμένων Εθνών και δεν έχει καμία νομική ισχύ, και ο λογαριασμός στο Twitter της ηγέτιδας των Σουηδικών Χριστιανοδημοκρατών ήταν ψεύτικος.
It is also reported that Facebook's ability to locate all of the above is either through mechanical learning that detects possible false stories (especially fake photos), or from user reports or false news controllers.
If you are interested in not seeing fake news online, you can only send a report to Facebook whenever you find the news on the platform.
