The Inquisitr - Tech

Facebook will soon apply warning labels to posts from state-controlled media in an effort to provide transparency about what users are seeing, CNN reported.

On Thursday, Facebook’s head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said that users of the social media platform need to be informed about where their news is coming from. For that reason, he said, the platform will soon be attaching labels to posts that come from media outlets that are controlled by governments.

“The concern for us is state media combines the agenda setting power of a media entity with the strategic backing of a state,” Gleicher said.

He cited the recent George Floyd protests as an example of coverage that could be clouded by articles from a state-controlled source, possibly using Facebook in order to push its own agenda.

“If you’re reading coverage of a protest, it’s really important you know who is writing that coverage and what motivation they

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