Overwhelmed by Facebook & fake news coverage? Wondering how we got here? Here is a brief timeline, with links to articles in our archives 1/
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In May, Facebook was under fire for the alleged bias in its Trending section http://www.poynter.org/2016/in-the-wake-of-furor-facebook-publishes-explainer-on-trending-topics/411682/ … 2/
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In June, the company published a set of values that underpin its News Feed http://www.poynter.org/2016/at-long-last-facebook-articulates-a-set-of-news-values/419365/ … 3/
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In August, Facebook tweaked News Feed to give content "personally informative" content a leg-up http://www.poynter.org/2016/facebook-tweaks-news-feed-to-favor-personally-informative-stories/426085/ … 4/
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At the end of August, the social network fired its Trending editors & got into trouble for highlighting fake news http://www.poynter.org/2016/facebook-should-hire-fact-checkers-heres-what-they-would-do/428118/ … 5/
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By October it was painfully clear that the fake news problem had gotten more serious and wasn't going anywhere http://www.poynter.org/2016/facebooks-fake-news-problem-wont-fix-itself/434236/ … 6/
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Two days after the U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg defended Facebook from accusations it had favored Trump http://www.poynter.org/2016/zuckerbergs-views-on-fake-news-and-trumps-election-annotated/438491/ … 7/
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Two days after *that*, the Facebook CEO claimed content on the social network was 99 percent "authentic" http://www.poynter.org/2016/mark-zuckerberg-says-less-than-1-percent-of-facebook-content-is-fake-news-how-does-he-know/438858/ … 8/
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Last week, 20 fact-checking org.s joined many others in calling on Facebook to seek help in combating fake news http://www.poynter.org/2016/an-open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg-from-the-worlds-fact-checkers/439586/ … 9/
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On Friday night, Zuckerberg published a few projects Facebook is working on to reduce the reach of fake news https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103269806149061 … 10/10
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