Facebook includes a variety of features that many users might not even know about. To improve your own experience navigating Facebook and to see the tools they themselves use to display news, check out some of the information and links below.
When a photo is marked as misinformation and judged by independent fact-checkers to be false, this overlay might appear on a Facebook post. You can see an example of this on the right-hand side.
By clicking the See Why button, we can see the following:
When Facebook marks something as misinformation, they also give you, the reader, the tools to see for yourself why and how it was marked.
As you're scrolling through your feed, you likely see a lot of different news articles. Some of these are because you follow the source. Others might be because it's sponsored content or because a friend has shared it. When you encounter news from an unfamiliar source, Facebook has a tool that allows you to learn more about the source without even leaving the website!