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Facebook Will Now Tell You Where That Viral Covid-19 Story Came From - Gizmodo
Aug 13, 2020 54 secs
While users aren’t prevented from sharing an older article, Facebook said at the time it was an attempt to get people to stop and think about what they were about to share—so hopefully users would actually read the article and analyze if it was from a legitimate source or if it provided the most up-to-date information on a given topic or event.

David Gillis, a designer at Facebook, tweeted that the social media company is changing that notification to include information about the link’s source, when the website was first registered, and when the article was first shared on Facebook.

There are plenty of sites that dig up up years-old news stories, rewrite them with little or no attribution or acknowledgement of the original publication date from the original source, and then publish—all for the sake of stirring up controversy.

A news outlet cannot pay another news outlet to share news stories on its Facebook page and call it a “paid partnership.” This recently occurred with the Facebook page Mad World News, which the social network demoted.

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