Here’s is how CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to curb it

“But I want you to know that we have always taken this seriously”, Mr Zuckerberg wrote.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called on world leaders on Saturday to forge a more “connected” world, something he said was under threat after Donald Trump’s USA election win and Britain’s “Brexit” vote.

Accusations escalated to reach claims that the spread of false news on Facebook has influenced the outcome of the United States presidential elections, which saw the victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

Friday’s statement took a more general approach, and did not mention the election.

Reports by mainstream media outlets like newspapers and television networks have exposed the high number of fake or misleading news stories being passed off on Facebook, often by websites with official-sounding names and the appearance that the sites are legitimate news outlets.

“The problems here are complex, both technically and philosophically”, Zuckerberg explained.

Before, Zuckerberg had effectively described Facebook as a self-policing community, where users would filter out false commentary and fake stories.

“- Warnings. We are exploring labeling stories that have been flagged as false by third parties or our community, and showing warnings when people read or share them.

As The New Daily reported on Saturday, the growing proliferation of false information on social media has led to what some are calling the “post-truth world”. The Friday after the election, he told those at the Techonomy conference that “the idea that fake news on Facebook.influenced the election in any way… is a pretty insane idea”.

Facebook will also look to third parties for help with verifying news sources.

“A lot of misinformation is driven by financially motivated spam”, Zuckerberg acknowledged in his post.

The site’s core business is built on the premise that advertisers can use Facebook’s targeting tools to show the right users the right message at the right time leading to the right outcome.

One idea Mr Zuckerberg presented on his post indicates that the firm wants to go further in “disrupting fake news economics”. Zuckerberg, who is in Lima for the APEC summit, outlined his intentions on the controversial topic this weekend – in, unsurprisingly, a Facebook post – after widespread criticism over the past months. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially dismissed the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election. There, he urged world leaders to help connect more people to the internet, which Zuckerberg said helps lifts people out of poverty.

Zuckerberg also says he intends to employ third party verification and engage in better quality discussion with journalists and news media outlets. I mean, you would think that people would be more discriminating, that they would understand when they read this that it couldn’t possibly be true.

Facebook got some backlash for its alleged role in influencing the election results by letting stories just like that circulate in people’s newsfeeds.

Facebook declined to say if Snopes is one of the fact-checking organizations they reached out to.