Censoring Fake News: Facebooks latest policy

What to say when your mom still has that horrible school photo of you from 6th grade on the wall...Take it down. Yesterday, Facebook announced that it will take down any fake news posts that lead to violence after the social networking site was accused of helping to spur violence in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India.

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, finds himself in hot water after a comment about censoring posts.

On Wednesday the social network said that it will start its campaign to remove misinformation which is intended to spark or worsen violence, including written posts and manipulated images.

The companies current policy bans co intent that directly calls for violence, but the new policy will now cover fake news that has the potential to stir up violence. But how will they do this? The company has said that they will be working with local organizations to help judge which posts qualify for the boot.

"There are certain forms of misinformation that have contributed to physical harm, and we are making a policy change which will enable us to take that type of content down." a Facebook spokeswoman said. "We will begin implementing the policy during the coming months."

Earlier on Wednesday Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, sparked outrage from the public when he said that the company would not be banning content from Holocaust deniers, and then later switched his stance by saying he would suppress content like that by making sure fewer people see it on their feeds.

But now the vital question arises of whether or not surpassing these opinions online is going to far? While the reasonable person would agree that you should foster a positive and safe environment for users, it may be just as unsafe for people for their freedom of ideas to be limited and surpassed. Obviously those who deny the Holocaust are a little far "out there", but just because you disagree with what they have to say does that mean they should be silenced?

It will be important to watch in the coming months how Facebook and other companies handle the idea of fake news and how that will effect our liberties.