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Facebook launching tool to help ID fake news

Briefs | 10/05/2017 4:11 pm EDT
An example of what appears when you click on an article context button in the Facebook news feed./ Image via Facebook.

Facebook Inc. is testing a feature to provide context to the many news reports often shared through the social media network, it said in a Thursday release.

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