What does it mean, exactly? Facebook is granting social scientists studying the spread of fake news on social access to the network's private servers. Gary King, director of Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, is examining whether it is possible to develop rules to classify whether news is true or false, rather than just an opposing ideology. The move comes as Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has been under fire from lawmakers and regulators over how much influence he wields in shaping what people see online.
Facebook is granting social scientists studying the spread of fake news on social access to the network's private servers. Gary King, director of Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, is examining whether it is possible to develop rules to classify whether news is true or false, rather than just an opposing ideology. The move comes as Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has been under fire from lawmakers and regulators over how much influence he wields in shaping what people see online.