Facebook is asking users to distinguish 'misleading' stories

Mark Zuckerberg may insist that Facebook doesn't have a serious fake news problem, but his company is apparently taking steps to identify misleading stories.

Several Facebook users tweeted Friday that they received studies from the site requesting them to identify whether certain headlines are mistaken.

Chris Krewson, the manager of Philadelphia news store Billy Penn, noticed the query under a Phila. Inquirer article. It asked him to distinguish to what extent the link's name uses "misleading language, inch with options which range from "not at all" to "completely. "

And writer Jorge Camargo got a study with slightly different phrasing under a Rolling Natural stone article. That particular example, which asks whether the article's headline "withholds key details of the account, " might be focused at battling clickbait somewhat than so-called fake media, however.