Marketing, E-commerce and Digital Design, Product Management, Brand Development, Design, Advertising and Consultancy

Publishers welcome Facebook's move to fight fake news by adding logos to links

on Aug 22, 2017 | 0 comments

By Rebecca Stewart

FACEBOOK FAKE NEWS

Facebook has played its latest card in the assault against fake news, revealing that it will begin to display publisher logos next to links posted within its walls.

Initially, logos will be featured adjacent to content viewable in Facebook‘s topical Trending bar as well as in search results on the site – with eventual plans to extend the tool to anywhere people can view news on the platform, meaning logos are likely to feature in users’ news feeds at some point.

This means an article featured in the trending section from the New York Times, for example, would feature the NYT Read full story ›

Source: The Drum