Facebook warns users about fake news stories

Irish Facebook users will see notices this week on their personal pages alerting them on how to spot fake news.

Facebook warns users about fake news stories

The social networking giant says the educational notices are being put up amid attempts to improve the quality of news appearing ahead of the Eighth Amendment referendum next month. The warnings started to go live yesterday.

The changes come as the firm also faces global criticism about how data belonging to tens of millions of users was shared with outside firms.

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