After the 2016 presidential election, the social media site, Facebook, had been under fire for showing advertisements and the such that were eventually linked and proven to intentionally spread misinformation to users. Russia had been accused of buying up ad space and creating fake bot accounts to further spread misinformation and propaganda to 1.5 billion Facebook users. Since then, Facebook had promised to fight back against fake news on its website by removing the fake accounts and updating their policy to ensure that fake news couldn't be spread off the platform. Facebook has done a good job taking care of this issue, but it's still far from over. Recently, a glitch has been discovered on the site where users can edit a link preview of an article that you can share. The ability to edit a link preview allows you to edit the image, headline, and description of the article into whatever you want.
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| This image shows an article that has been shared on Facebook. |
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| This image shows the same article except its headline has been changed with the glitch. |
However, this glitch can only be done in Facebook Groups. Apparently, Facebook had already removed the ability to edit link previews in 2017, due to it being abused by people to spread fake news. As of September 9th, 2019, the glitch has not been fixed and people in a Facebook Group can still edit link previews.
https://mashable.com/article/facebook-loophole-fake-news-link-preview/
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