Facebook announced today a very interesting change for the social network, one that will help us to find out much more clearly where the posts that we see on various pages that are available within its platform are published.
Facebook will display the location from which the posts are published on the pages that have a large reach, the same is also true in the case of posts on Instagram, and everything so that people know if a page that seems to be from the USA, has posts published from Russia .
Facebook is making the change for pages and accounts, initially for those outside the US, which have a large audience in the US, the goal being to help people not to be deceived during the elections that will take place in the US in 2020, but of course any entity can use a VPN to hide your location.
Facebook has been heavily criticized in the US for allowing the Russians to help Donald Trump get elected, and now it seems to be taking a step forward in the idea of bringing transparency in the case of pages and accounts that publish various information, and have very large reach.
"We want to make sure people use our services authentically and can understand who is behind the posts they see. This is especially important when it comes to elections, so we're taking extra steps to make pages and accounts with large audiences more transparent. Today, we're taking it a step further to provide the location of high-profile Facebook Pages and Instagram accounts on every post they share, so people have more information to help them gauge the trustworthiness and authenticity of the content they're sharing. see in their streams."
Facebook does a part of what it should have done with a lot, but still it is only half of what we should see from the American company because the location can be hidden very easily by anyone through VPNs.
