siliconindia | | April 201719When it comes to fighting fake news, everyone must do their part, especially platforms that facilitate instant information sharingin third-party verification processes to label articles as false or disputed.Leveraging Technology to Fight Fake News EpidemicWhen it comes to fighting fake news, everyone must do their part, especially platforms that facilitate instant in-formation sharing. In the enterprise collaboration space, team messaging platforms are increasingly being utilized and recognized as credible information-sharing platforms. This is why it is important that fake news is detected and flagged before it reaches the masses. Even team mes-saging platforms can provide the tools needed to flag fake news.For instance, Flock, the team messenger has introduced the Flock Fake News Detector (FND), which identifies and flags content from sources deemed misleading, unverified or false when shared on Flock. It cross-references the URLs of links shared on Flock against a database of over 600 ver-ified fake news sources. If the news is found to be from an unreliable news source, the FND immediately flags it with a highly visible icon and red bar alongside the preview of the URL. Audience Awareness is the Need of the HourUltimately, the responsibility lies with us to be more criti-cal about what is disseminated online. We need to be more proactive when it comes to consuming and controlling the false news. One way to impress this sense of responsibility is to start educating people ­ starting from schools and col-leges ­ to limit the spread of fake news.As users, there are many ways in which we can check the veracity of news. The first thing is to examine headlines carefully. Fake stories tend to have a sensational element as we saw in the examples mentioned earlier. Secondly, a reader should go through the story and identify people, or-ganizations and reports that are mentioned and cross-check those on different sites. Thirdly, if a URL looks odd, then check the about us section and author. And finally, look at comments and reviews.In an age where information is disseminated on multiple platforms and can spread like wildfire, we need to approach information from a critical perspective. This is how we can ensure that fake news perishes as quickly as it rises.
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