Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook is hoping to cut the fast spread of misinfromation on its platform by checking to see whether someone has read a news story before they share it on the massive social platform.Starting Monday, Facebook said, it is testing “a way to promote more informed sharing of news articles.
If you go to share a news article link you haven’t opened, we’ll show a prompt encouraging you to open it and read it, before sharing it with others.The move comes after Twitter made a similar change in the run-up to the 2020 U.S.
president election, asking users whether they wanted to read an article before they retweeted it. That feature on Twitter also is designed to thwart the spread of misinfo.
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