Facebook employees reportedly forming secret ‘task force’ to address fake news

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Mark Zuckerberg may not care that much about the fake news stories run amok on Facebook, but some employees within his company appear to have very different views.

According to BuzzFeed News, “more than dozens” of employees have organized a secret “task force” that intends to create and deliver a series of recommendations to Facebook leadership on what the company can do about its fake news problem.

“It’s not a crazy idea” that fake news on Facebook had an impact on the election, an anonymous member of the task force tells BuzzFeed News. “What’s crazy is for [Zuckerberg] to come out and dismiss it like that, when he knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season.”

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It’s rare to hear of so much organized dissent from within a company, and it’s worth reading through BuzzFeed’s article for all the details. Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.