{"id":29096,"date":"2017-12-22T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29096"},"modified":"2017-12-22T07:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:57:41","slug":"designing-against-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29096","title":{"rendered":"Designing Against Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Designing Against Misinformation<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Updated treatment for misinformation in News Feed using Related\u00a0Articles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false. Should you trust everything that you see, even if it comes from someone whom you don\u2019t know well? If you\u2019ve never heard of an article\u2019s publisher, but the headline looks legitimate, is it?<\/p>\n

Misinformation comes in many different forms and can cover a wide range of topics. It can take the shape of memes, links, and other forms. And it can range from pop culture to politics or even to critical information during a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

We know that the vast majority of people don\u2019t want to share \u201cfalse news.\u201d And we know people want to see accurate information on Facebook, but don\u2019t always know what information or sources to trust\u2014this makes discerning what\u2019s true and what\u2019s false difficult.<\/p>\n

After a year of testing and learning, we\u2019re making a change to how we alert people when they see false news on Facebook.<\/span> As the designer, researcher, and content strategist driving this work, we wanted to share the process of how we got here and the challenges that come with designing against misinformation.<\/p>\n

What We\u00a0Learned<\/strong><\/p>\n

In December of last year, we launched a series of changes to identify and reduce the spread of false news<\/a> in News Feed:<\/p>\n