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Facebook's new AI system uses machine learning to identify text in images

Facebook is also continuing to invest in extending the text recognition model.

Facebook will not remove fake news but will demote it from News Feed

Facebook said that it will not remove fake news because it does not violate its community standards.

Facebook’s fight against misinformation in News Feed is a human problem as much as it is Facebook’s

But at the end of the day, Facebook has to deal with it because it’s free to use social platform is the one helping spread misinformation.

Facebook is now asking European users which news source they trust

Facebook has lately been criticized for failing to prevent false reports.

Mark Zuckerberg outlines the ways Facebook will limit data available to developers post Cambridge Analytica fiasco

Facebook is also expected to place a tool (essentially a shortcut) at the top of user's News Feeds that allow people a way to disable apps.

Facebook wants to be the de-facto destination for current news with its new ‘Breaking news’ label

Facebook added that the publishers can add this breaking tag to one post every day in addition to five more posts each month.

Facebook ends plans to split News Feed into two after receiving bad reviews from users in test countries

In Cambodia, media outlets welcomed the news that Facebook had ended the test.

Facebook clarifies that it is not their job to hire journalists for content on its social media platform

Facebook in October launched a new programme that would allow publishers to sell subscriptions to their news sites on Facebook.

Facebook shares rise after quarterly results; optimism increases for its digital ad business

Facebook said that time spent was falling at the end of last year by about 50 million hours a day.

Facebook says social media's benefits for democracy are not guaranteed; admits it was slow to respond to 2016 US election crisis

“I wish I could guarantee that the positives are destined to outweigh the negatives, but I can‘t,” Samidh Chakrabarti, a Facebook product manager