To alleviate the effect of fake news and control its spread, Facebook is thinking about to tell clients in the event that they wound up sharing or perusing a fake story. As indicated by a report in TechCrunch on Friday, Facebook may tell individuals retroactively about a fake story. ”You want to make sure as little comes in the system as possible and when it happens, you need to react as quickly as you can. And if you didn’t find it until later then you need to consider letting people know. The question is who and how. I don’t know if we’ll do that but it’s certainly something we’re considering,” Adam Mosseri, Facebook Vice-President of News Feed was quoted as saying.

Mosseri was talking on Friday on a board, 'Isolating reality from dream: Is fake news undermining reality?' at the University of California Berkeley, the report said. As far back as the consequences of US Presidential races were announced, Facebook was blamed for spreading and advancing fake news that supported the win of US President Donald Trump.

Despite the fact that the organization has taken number of measures to keep fake news from spreading, there are still concerns being raised. “Fake news was a thing on Facebook before the election, and something Facebook had been working to address for a couple of years. The main difference has been the public outcry in the wake of the election,” Mosseri additionally noted.  of the election,” Mosseri further noted. ”The amount of fake news on the platform, actually – and I’m not trying to diminish the importance of the issue – is relatively small. It’s a very small percentage of what people see. It should be smaller. It should get as close to zero as possible,” he included.

Mosseri said that they expected to decrease the conveyance that fake news distributers get as close as they could to zero. ”One area Mosseri is particularly excited about is taking a closer look at landing pages. If you look at a landing page and 90 per cent of the page are ads, Mosseri said, that’s a sign that it’s not a legitimate site,”