Facebook’s battle against fake news has spread to business listings.
Organizations that link to news stories deemed to be false from their Pages listing will no longer be allowed to advertise on Facebook, the social network said Monday.
Companies, brands, celebrities, and other groups use Facebook’s Pages feature as their public profiles on Facebook.
Facebook said that it discovered certain groups using Pages as a way to spread fake news, although it didn’t say which organizations were doing so. Leading up to and after the 2016 presidential election of Donald Trump, numerous organizations and individuals have used Facebook as a way to distribute bogus or misleading news stories.
