Social Media Sites Are Developing into News Platforms and Facing New Challenges

Chris Baraniuk, technology reporter for BBC, wrote that Facebook has observed propaganda efforts by foreign governments. Facebook has seen false news, disinformation or fake accounts on their platform and has removed tens of thousands of them from around the world. The amount of people getting their news from online social media websites is 62%, according to Pew Research Center. Facebook has been very public and forthcoming about these issues and their efforts to combat the spread of fake news and propaganda. They are creating artificial intelligence systems to create a faster response to false information or spam. I believe that these efforts have not done enough to combat the issue.