Facebook is rolling out a new label to indicate pages, posts, and ads published by state-controlled media outlets.
As the state-controlled media outlets are working as per instructions from the respective governments, their contents are presented as a specific, biased view of any topic or event. When sharing such content by Facebook users, they will be better informed of the authority of the publishers by seeing the new labels which provide additional transparency to the facts and figures.
As announced by Facebook:
“We’re providing greater transparency into these publishers because they combine the influence of a media organization with the strategic backing of a state, and we believe that people should know if the news they read is coming from a publication that may be under the influence of a government.”
