Senior company executive Eddy Cue spoke Monday about fake news at the Code Media Conference, and hinted at Apple's plans to tackle it.
The Trump administration was considered truthful by 49 percent of voters, while only 39 percent of the respondents said they trusted the media, an Emerson College poll showed.
The online encyclopedia reportedly debated Daily Mail’s credibility for almost two years before reaching its decision.
"There has been more coming from the left... A lot of dubious news, a lot of wishful thinking-type stuff."
Facebook announced Monday it would work with eight french media, including Agence France-Presse, BFM TV, L'Express and Le Monde, to fact-check news articles posted by users.
"In Q4, we added 276,000 net new digital news subscriptions, the single best quarter since 2011, the year the pay model (was) launched," Chief Executive Mark Thompson said in a statement.
Facebook, which now boasts of nearly 2 billion active users, increased its earnings, profit and user base in the final quarter of 2016.
Fox News, which Donald Trump has repeatedly praised, became the most-watched cable network in January.
Facebook, which announced changed to its news feed Tuesday, said that its latest update will help better identify authentic content.
Google eliminated more than 1.7 billion bad advertisements in 2016 and removed nearly 200 websites from its advertising network for masquerading as news sites.
Over 155 million fraudulent emails aimed at stealing your personal information, such as passwords and financial details, are sent around the world every day.
Snapchat unveiled new content guidelines for publishers on its Discover platform on Monday. The new rules prohibit sexually explicit content and clickbait headlines.
Scientists have proposed a psychological “vaccine” against misinformation that will help inoculate the public against the damaging effects of misleading “myths.”
Trump's former campaign manager said Press Secretary Sean Spicer didn't lie to the press in his first formal appearance; he presented "alternative facts."
The Pew Research Center said more Americans got their election campaign news from Fox News Channel than any other source.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also claimed that the unsubstantiated allegations were orchestrated to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. election results.
A student at Stanford is hoping to use neural networks to identify fake news sites in a more sophisticated way that is free of human bias.
“It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued,” Trump tweeted Friday.
Trump called CNN a "fake news" organization during his press conference and refused to allow Jim Acosta to ask a question.
A Kremlin spokesman dismissed the report and said that the allegations could be a ploy to hurt bilateral relations between the U.S. and Russia.
Ms.Brown will be joining Facebook this month to lead its News Partnerships team.
A recent Tweet posted by a fake BBC News account proclaimed the Queen of England died.
