Facebook bans Pages sharing fake news from buying ads

Facebook will try to stem the spread of fake news, even if it means cutting off some revenue.Facebook will block Pages that repeatedly publish posts flagged as fake news from buying ads on the social network, the company announced on Monday. “If Pages stop sharing false news, they may be eligible to start running ads again,” Facebook product managers Satwik Shukla and Tessa Lyons wrote in a company blog post. Facebook already forbids Pages from buying ads that link to articles flagged as fake, through a process involving third-party fact-checkers that Facebook enacted earlier this year.