Facebook is the largest social media service on the planet, with over 2 billion users - over a quarter of the world's population. As such, policing Facebook is a tremendous challenge. One of the service's biggest policing issues is with fake news stories, which was a particularly big problem in the US during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Despite Facebook's efforts to stop the spread of fake news, the massive social media service is still rife with it:
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-viewed-fake-news-stories-shared-on-facebook-2019-2019-11
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-viewed-fake-news-stories-shared-on-facebook-2019-2019-11
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