Find out which of your Facebook friends are sharing fake news

Annoyed by the never-ending stream of fake news on social media? You can now use Facebook's new News Feed feature to identify your friends who are sharing misleading or just plain old inaccurate news and put them back on the path of righteousness. 

The feature, launched Tuesday for U.S. users, is actually an extension of an older News Feed update Facebook has been testing since October 2017. 

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If the new option has rolled out for you, it should be easy to find — as you scroll through stories in your News Feed, news stories will get a small "i" above and to the right of the headline. Tap on it, and you'll get some additional info about this article: A bit of data about the publisher, a couple of related articles, a map showing where the article has been shared and, lastly, a list of friends who have shared the article.  Read more...

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