• Guardian, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 8:39 AM

The Guardian reports that Facebook is testing a tool designed to help it "identify and hide so-called 'fake news' on the social network, in an attempt to quell increasingly vocal criticism of its role in spreading untruths and propaganda." The tool asks readers to rank on a scale of one to five the extent to which they think a link’s title "uses misleading language." The articles the readers were asked to rank were from Rolling Stone magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Chortle, a news site which reports on comedy. The Guardian report says it's not clear how Facebook plans to use the  data it's collecting or whether it will use it at all.

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