tech facebook 022416getty lead Facebook announced a new project Journalism Project, to prevent from false news

Facebook announced the new project “Journalism Project” in a way to “establish stronger ties between Facebook and the news industry.”

The theme of the project cover areas like: developing new products, offering new training and tools for journalists, and providing new tools to aware the public about the real and fake news.

“We will be collaborating with news organisations to develop products, learning from journalists about ways we can be a better partner, and working with publishers and educators on how we can equip people with the knowledge they need to be informed readers in the digital age,” shared by facebook.

In its post, Facebook said it was hoping to maintain developing membership models in news-casting, offer enhanced promotion of local news, and encourage diverse narrating techniques on its stage. The organization likewise said it would offer preparing to writers on its different stages, for example, analytics tool CrowdTangle and Facebook Live.

The new activity comes following a year of audit over Facebook’s part in reporting and media. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has minimised Facebook’s part as a media organization. The organization took feedback after the ascendance of “fake news” articles on the stage, which scattered false and trick news stories at volumes that in any event a few cases surpassed genuine news on Facebook.

The online networking organization has made a critical push to connect with journalists in 2016 and the begin of 2017.At the end of last year it took off new ways to alleviate the spread of “fake news” on its site. The organization simply declared its employing of long-term TV stay Campbell Brown to lead its news associations group to encourage more grounded associations with writers.

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