Professor measures effectiveness of Facebook ‘fake news’ tools

Editor’s note: This story by Rob Wolfe was published by the Valley News on Nov. 22, 2017.HANOVER, N.H. — With more than half of American adults relying on social media for some of their news in 2017, according to the Pew Research Center, it’s fair, but also a bit troubling, to say that the nation’s democratic health derives, in part, from that Facebook post you just liked.
The public got a taste of Facebook’s importance during the 2016 elections, where intentionally