Facebook deletes ads 📜 over fake news 📰 row in Kenya 🇰🇪

The social media network, activated a pinned post to the top of timelines in Kenya 🇰🇪 that directs users to the Facebook Help Center, with resources on how to spot 🔍 false reports "such as checking the web address 💻, investigating 🔍 the source and looking for other reports 📰 on the topic."

Alphonce Shiundu, Kenya 🇰🇪 editor of Africa Check ✅, a not-for-profit organization working to promote media accuracy 📰 across the continent, told CNN that the country has seen an increase 📈 in misinformation through social platforms 🐦 including Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram.

More than a third of the top 200 stories about the two US presidential candidates were from fake news site.️

During the two months before the election, according to NewsWhip, a company that tracks social media 🐦 content and helps newsrooms flag fake news stories that are going viral.

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