In November, facing a barrage of post-election media coverage about how " fake news " on Facebook had influenced the 2016 presidential election, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would be working to combat the spread of misinformation on the platform. This effort, he said, would include deploying an algorithm to detect and flag misinformation, using third-party sites to help fact-check articles that were being shared, and notifying users if a story they tried to share appeared to be false.