At the Movies: Facebook’s Short Film Details Its Anti-Fake News Efforts

Facing Facts was directed by documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville

Get your popcorn ready: Facebook created an 11-minute film, Facing Facts, to shed more light on its efforts to combat misinformation and fake news.

Facing Facts can be found on Inside Feed, a new communications channel the social network created to share insight on how the company makes decisions and the people who are involved in those calls.

John Hegeman, Facebook’s head of News Feed, said in an Inside Feed post introducing the film that documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville spent “several months” with “key members” of the News Feed team at the social network’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.,

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