Facebook will filter 'fake news' in Germany

Oh man I'm so sick of this 'fake news' hype here in Germany.

It's the internet. Get used to it!

edit: I'm also very curious how Facebook plans to accomplish it. They probably gave the usual response 'yeah we'll fix it', so our politicians and news outlets stop talking about this nonsense.

Major news outlets in Germany publish unverifiable news from undisclosed sources as well. I fail to see why Facebook should get a special treatment in this regard.

correctiv.org is independent non-profit, based in Berlin, which is interesting setting. This is a rather small company, with editorial office in Essen. It looks like it relies on 16 journalists (some of them high-calibre), and one traineeto fulfil their duties. Of which Facebook is not the only one. Which inevitably poses a question, how good is this backup and is this not another kind of attempt of a Dutch boy stopping flood of the whole Nederland with his finger in the dam?

The dam is of course the German FB, standing the flood of fake news. I failed to recognise how many 'viral' stories on FB are fake, however, so can't really estimate that Correctiv is much of a finger in such a dam.