Facebook has finally decided to do something good for the whole world, and marks the pages of media institutions controlled by governments with a special message that tells people what kind of messages they are actually reading.
Facebook shows below how these pages will look, and you can see that we are talking about a special indicator that tells us that the information published by those pages is not really that credible.
Facebook has been criticized for years for not properly marking the pages of media trusts controlled by various governments, so now the company is finally making a move in favor of the people.
"We want to help people better understand who is behind the news they see on Facebook. A few months ago, we announced our plan to label media that are fully or partially controlled by their government, and today we are starting to apply labels to these state-controlled media. We offer greater transparency to these publishers because they combine the influence of a media organization with the strategic support of a state, and we believe that people should know if the news they are reading comes from a publication that may be under the influence of a government.”
