Facebook says it will start applying warning labels to some "fake news" stories that users share on the social network. 
 
 Articles that are known to be false -- seemingly published with the intent to trick people -- will be marked with what Facebook is calling a "flag." 
 
 Below the headline there will be a red label that says "disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers." 
 
 Users will be able to click on a "learn why this is disputed" link to get more information. 
 
 Facebook will not be doing the fact-checking itself. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that "we do not want to be arbiters of truth ourselves, but instead rely on our community and trusted third parties." 
 
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 So those third parties will be fact-checking organization that have committed to the International Fact Checking Code of Principles, which was recently established by Poynter, a journalism organization. 
 
 Several dozen fact-checking organizations around the world have signed on the code of principles. 
 
 "We'll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations," Facebook VP Adam Mosseri said in a blog post Thursday. "If the fact checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why." 
 
 Facebook is making it clear that users will still be able to post whatever they want, no matter how bogus, on their own Facebook pages. But "you will see a warning that the story has been disputed as you share," Mosseri said. 
 
 And the disputed stories "may also appear lower" in the algorithmic News Feed that appears on the Facebook home page. 
 
 Facebook and other social media companies are under pressure from users and journalism advocacy groups to combat the proliferation of so-called "fake news." While the term has many definitions, and partisans have started to exploit the term, one specific type of "fake news" involves stories that are designed to deceive. One example from the 2016 election: claims that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump. 
 
 Mosser said that is the area Facebook is focusing on -- "the worst of the worst, the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain." 
 
 These hoaxes have proliferated on Facebook recently, though there is considerable disagreement about how big of a problem it is. 
 
 At a recent journalism industry conference, Facebook representatives said that addressing the spread of knowingly fake stories is the #1 priority at the highest levels of the company. 
 
 Zuckerberg has said that he does not believe "fake news" stories about the campaign tilted the result of the 2016 election. But in a Facebook post last month, he said "we take misinformation seriously" and pledged that the company would be doing more. 
 
 Also on Thursday, Mosseri said Facebook is testing "several ways" to report hoaxes through the site. 
 
 "We've relied heavily on our community for help on this issue, and this can help us detect more fake news," he said. 
 
 Facebook is also working on reducing the "financial incentives" of posting fake stories, he said. ||||| Facebook Details Its New Plan To Combat Fake News Stories 
 
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 Providing new details about how it's trying to counter the spread of fake news on its services, Facebook says it's working with fact-checking groups to identify bogus stories — and to warn users if a story they're trying to share has been reported as fake. 
 
 Facebook also says it will let users report a possible hoax by clicking the upper right hand corner of a post and choosing one of four reasons they want to flag it — from "It's spam" to "It's a fake news story." 
 
 If a story is deemed false, it will be tagged with an alert message saying it's been "disputed by 3rd party fact-checkers." 
 
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 The social media giant was sharply criticized after the Nov. 8 election, as false stories were blamed for adding confusion to a dynamic campaign season. Since then, fake news and conspiracy theories were also identified as a motivating factor in a man's assault on a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. 
 
 In the wake of that and other stories, some called for Facebook to hire editors to vet news stories; in today's update from Facebook's vice president in charge of its News Feed feature, Adam Mosseri, the company could be seen to be effectively outsourcing that job to third-party groups that it says have signed on to Poynter's International Fact Checking Code of Principles. 
 
 The update to Facebook's plan to cope with bogus information comes nearly one month after CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook had "much more work" to do in how it handles false stories. 
 
 Today's news touches on four of the seven areas that Zuckerberg listed as part of his company's fight against misinformation. It remains to be seen whether the moves will satisfy Facebook's critics — both inside and outside the company's ranks — who've faulted the way it deals with controversial, offensive and/or fake posts. As NPR's Aarti Shahani reported in November, that effort has grown to include thousands of overseas subcontractors. 
 
 In a news release outlining how Facebook's new reporting and flagging process will work, Mosseri said the company will rely on its users to report a story as potentially bogus, "along with other signals." The story would then be sent to fact-checkers. 
 
 "If the fact-checking organizations identify a story as fake," Mosseri said, "it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why. Stories that have been disputed may also appear lower in News Feed." 
 
 Mosseri added, "It will still be possible to share these stories, but you will see a warning that the story has been disputed as you share." 
 
 The flagged story will also be rejected if anyone tries to turn it into a promoted ad, Facebook says. 
 
 While fake news created a stir because of its intersection with U.S. politics, many of the people behind the sites say they're mainly in it for the money. 
 
 Here's how Craig Silverman of BuzzFeed News described what he found in researching the phenomenon, Wednesday's Fresh Air: 
 
 "Facebook directly doesn't really earn them a lot of money. But the key thing about Facebook — and this is true whether you're running a politics site out of Macedonia or whether you run a very large website in the U.S. — Facebook is the biggest driver of traffic to, you know, news websites in the world now. You know, 1.8 billion people log into Facebook every month." 
 
 Today, Facebook says it has "found that a lot of fake news is financially motivated" — and that it's taking steps to remove some of that incentive. 
 
 "On the buying side we've eliminated the ability to spoof domains, which will reduce the prevalence of sites that pretend to be real publications," Mosseri says. "On the publisher side, we are analyzing publisher sites to detect where policy enforcement actions might be necessary."
– Facebook on Thursday announced a concrete step toward combating the spread of fake news. NPR reports Facebook will allow users to flag stories they believe to be fake. Those stories will then be forwarded on to one of several fact-checking organizations that have signed on to Poynter's International Fact Checking Code of Principles, according to CNN. (Facebook won't be fact-checking stories itself.) If the fact-checker decides the story is false, it will be labeled "disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers" on Facebook. Users will still be able to share the story but won't be able to turn it into a promoted ad. Facebook says a lot of fake news is being created to make money, and hopefully this will help fight that. Disputed stories may also be placed lower in the News Feed.