Facebook starts prompting users to read news articles before sharing them

Fake news is a big issue on most social media networks, and Facebook is no exception. A lot of misinformation that is shared on sites like Facebook and Twitter is due to people sharing and retweeting posts with article links without reading them. Last year, Twitter launched a feature that would nudge users to read the article before retweeting it, and now Facebook has begun rolling out a similar feature to users around the world.

The company announced on Monday that it was rolling out a popup that would help people be more informed about the content of the articles in posts they share on the platform. When users share posts on the app or website,