Talk:The Quick Spread of Fake News/@comment-31829181-20170425031752/@comment-31829949-20170430024153

It still means that gossiping amongst the users is a common practice. However, I wonder how with its new fake news policies Facebook is going to check this. I mean, there are now tools to report fake news posts on Facebook, but does gossiping and spreading the story also mark those posters for the administrators? What if someone read it and genuinely thought that it was real or was reposting it to their timeline to ask their friends and family whether or not they thought that the story was real. Maybe Facebook is biting off more than they can chew because the rules don't seem very well defined, and I get the feeling that the users are going to be relied too heavily on to regulate themselves. It seems more like a deniability clause for Facebook rather than an actual solution to the problem.