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Reaction speed was vital when countering fake news, said Quin Murray, Krzana's other founder.

The new algorithm ― which, of the three changes, appears to be the most effective in countering fake news ― also seems to be the one Facebook is least eager to talk about.

In response to intense scrutiny from German politicians, Facebook rolled out new measures last month aimed at countering fake news in the country, including giving users the ability to flag false reports, using fact-checkers to vet stories, and disrupting financial incentives for spammers "by eliminating the ability for them to spoof well-known news websites".

But, he said, it's a very useful tool to counter "fake news" and respond to critics.

However, efforts to counter fake news in the UK are lagging behind Germany, France and the Netherlands, where Facebook is working with established media organisations to flag disputed stories in users' newsfeeds.

On 19 November the Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced new steps to counter fake news on the platform, marking a departure from his scepticism that online misinformation was, as Barack Obama has put it, a threat to democratic institutions.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new steps to counter fake news on the platform on Saturday, marking a departure from his skepticism that online misinformation is, as Barack Obama said this week, a threat to democratic institutions.

The idea of a fake submission was to counter "fake conferences... which exist only to make money," explained Stribling and his cohorts' on their website, "SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator". "Our aim is to maximise amusement, rather than coherence," it said.

But both companies have built their own interfaces for news — Accelerated Mobile Pages and Instant Articles — and they could proactively counter fake stories in those spaces.

Facebook's Zuckerberg offers plan to counter fake news sites.

In advance of elections last year, Germany moved to test for computer vulnerabilities at its federal election authority, and local media outlets set up teams of fact-checkers to counter fake news, The New York Times reported at the time.