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Post-truth and fake news are buzz phrases which have filled social media streams and newspaper column inches over the past few months. The fear is that objective facts have become less influential in shaping public opinion. Instead it's claimed that made up stories shared online are shaping people's beliefs and voting intentions. Now Facebook is introducing new tools in Germany to help combat the spread of fabricated news. It is the first major expansion of the fake news features since the world's largest social network announced tests in the US in December. Users can flag up stories as potentially fake, which will then be passed to third-party verifiers and if found to be unreliable, will be marked in users' news feeds as "disputed". David Shraven is from Correctiv, the German organisation which has been tasked with checking the facts.

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