BBC establishes dedicated team to debunk fake Facebook & Twitter stories

The BBC is to establish a permanent Reality Check team tasked with debunking fake news as the broadcaster seeks to cement its role as a bastion of probity in a world deluged by misleading and manifestly false ‘news’ items on the web.
Spearheaded by BBC News director James Harding the initiative will see a group of fact checkers probe outlandish tales for accuracy before giving their own verdicts for readers to make an informed judgement call on that day’s social media stories.