Facebook to ask users to report fake news through survey

After years of growth and adding new features, Facebook has become one of the most important sources of news to the social media generation. Realising the effects of Fake news in the light of US election 2016, the social media giant has been trying to battle the fake news out of its platform.

Moving in the same direction, the company is now asking users to report ‘misleading language’ in posts through a survey module.

Chris Krewson, an editor for Philadelphia publication Billy Penn, has detected a survey module below a post by the Philadelphia Inquirer about a white nationalist losing her job. The survey asked: "To what extent do you think that this link's title uses misleading language?" There were five choices to choose from - "Not at all," "Slightly," "Somewhat," "Very much" and "Completely" - but the module could clearly be dismissed with by clicking on a close button.

Facebook is asking whether this @PhillyInquirer headline is fake? pic.twitter.com/cCUpwtvQlS

— Chris Krewson (@ckrewson) December 5, 2016

The company is yet to comment anything on the process but has confirmed the initiative to TechCrunch.

It is yet to be seen how this system module will benefit the company as the users are the ones to creating the fake news. Trusting such people to locate the fake news, is clearly a weird way to battle the fake news cloud.