Facebook will notify users before they share old news articles on the social network

To address concerns over misinformation on its platform, Facebook is introducing a new feature that will alert users if news articles they are about to share are more than 90 days old. The move is aimed at adding more context to stories shared on Facebook, the world’s most popular social media network with over 2 billion users.

“Over the past several months, our internal research found that the timeliness of an article is an important piece of context that helps people decide what to read, trust and share,” Facebook said in a blog post. “News publishers in particular have expressed concerns about older stories being shared on social media as current news, which can misconstrue the state of current events.