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We know people want to see accurate information on Facebook and so do we.

False news is harmful to our community, it makes the world less informed, and it erodes trust. It's not a new phenomenon, and all of us tech companies, media companies, newsrooms, teachers have a responsibility to do our part in addressing it. At Meta, we're working to fight the spread of false news in three key areas:

Disrupting Economic Incentives

When it comes to fighting false news, one of the most effective approaches is removing the economic incentives for traffickers of misinformation. We've found that a lot of fake news is financially motivated. These spammers make money by masquerading as legitimate news publishers and posting hoaxes that get people to visit their sites, which are often mostly ads.

Some of the steps we're taking include:

Building New Products

We're building, testing and iterating on new products to identify and limit the spread of false news. We cannot become arbiters of truth ourselves it's not feasible given our scale, and it's not our role. Instead, we're working on better ways to hear from our community and work with third parties to identify false news and prevent it from spreading on our platform.

Some of the work includes:

Helping People Make More Informed Decisions

Though we're committed to doing everything we can to reduce the spread of false news to as close to zero as possible, we also need to make sure we take steps to address the problem when people do encounter hoaxes. To that end, we're exploring ways to give people more context about stories so they can make more informed decisions about what to read, trust and share and ways to give people access to more perspectives about the topics that they're reading.

Some of the work we've been focused on includes:

We need to work across industries to help solve this problem: technology companies, media companies, educational organizations and our own community can come together to help curb the spread of misinformation and false news. By focusing on the three key areas outlined above, we hope we will make progress toward limiting the spread of false news and toward building a more informed community on Facebook.

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Pushing fake news is bad for business.

The Washington Post has lost 500,000 subscribers since Joe Biden took office.

In 2021, The Washington Post had 3 million subscribers that number dropped to 2.5 million in 2022.

This has led to The Washington Post also seeing a decline in revenue they are not expected to make a profit this year.

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The Washington Free Beacon reported:

Former president Donald Trump often said he was the best thing to ever happen to the Washington Post and other mainstream news outlets.

He was right.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Jeff Bezos-owned publication has lost 500,000 subscribers since Trump left office in January 2021, which amounts to a decline of roughly 20 percent. The Post is on track to lose money in 2022 after years of profitability. The New York Times reported in August that the Posts business has stalled since President Joe Biden was sworn in, and layoffs are being discussed amid managements frustration with numerous low performers in the newsroom.

The papers animosity towards conservatives is likely one of the factors that is leading to the papers decline.

Conservatives dont want to read fake news.

Red State reported:

That is stark. 500,000 readers have vaporized in the past two years. It underscores in hard numbers the kind of challenge being faced across the media spectrum. Now certainly, there are a number of factors leading to this type of audience flight. The economy looms, the advertising sector has been collapsing, and the widening diversification in media continues. But WaPo has also been exacerbating this demise. You do not lose half a million subscribers over that period if you are putting out enough quality to retain interest.

Consistently, this paper has been antagonistic to a sector of its audience. The national paper located within the nations capital has made it rather clear it harbors an animous towards Republicans/conservatives, so the motivation from that sector to continue funding the insults and attacks is diminished. Then you have the rather apparent antagonism towards journalism ethics.

This is the paper that has allowed Taylor Lorenz to run rampant this year. It is home to the laughably facts-averse fact-checker Glenn Kessler. It claims to have balanced editorial perspectives by retaining Democrats-in-conservative-clothing columnists Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot. It continues to pretend Philip Bump is a reasoned and cerebral source of commentary.

When will the media learn and start giving conservatives fair coverage?

For the antidote to media bias, check out ProTrumpNews.com

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