Facebook Introduces Mandatory Authorization for Pages With 'Large US Audience'

In its continuing efforts to purge fake news, conspiracy theories and misinformation campaigns on its platform, social media giant Facebook has merely announced its new regulations that will require pages with a 'big US audition' to verify their location if they don't want to exist barred from publishing new posts. Instagram will also implement similar changes 'in the coming weeks', the visitor said.

The new plan volition exist implemented simply for US-oriented pages for now, and the company says information technology will get-go notifying affected users from this weekend. Enforcement is expected to follow later on this calendar month. There's no give-and-take at the moment on whether the new requirements volition be expanded globally in the days ahead.

Curiously, Facebook doesn't say exactly how 'large' a page has to exist to trigger the new requirement, but we'll start getting an idea nigh that as the company starts notifying affected users in the days to come up. Admins of such pages will exist receive a notice at the top of their News Feed, asking them to complete an say-so process in guild to go on posting on their page.

"If you don't complete the authorizations process before the borderline, your Page's default setting for 'Posting as' and 'Liking and commenting every bit' will change from your Page to your personal profile"

Co-ordinate to Facebook, users will take to take ii unproblematic steps to get authorized. Firstly, plow of 2FA (two-gene authentication) for the afflicted Facebook account, and then, confirm their location or turn on location services on their mobile device.

Going forward, Facebook will be providing even more data most Pages to help users determine their authenticity. "We're also calculation a section chosen People Who Manage This Page, which will surface the master land locations Pages are managed from, initially appearing on Pages with a big U.s.a. audience", the company said.