Facebook Strategy to Halt Fake News Includes a ‘Head of News’

Social network will ask users to be vigilant, connect them with fact-checkers, and hire a full-time Head of News to supervise the initiative.

Facebook admittedly is in quite a tough, and unique, position. While it is not a conventional news publisher by any means, it is in fact a 24/7 deliverer to as many as 1.8 billion users of a high percentage of the world’s news and information as published by others.