A nearly year-old Facebook event for a "simple maths competition" has been one of the most viral posts on the platform for ...

Facebook's transparency center has published its Widely Viewed Content Report, showing what people see on Facebook.

FARGO — Organizers of a popular holiday event in Fargo-Moorhead are setting the record straight after several fake Facebook events popped up. Fargo's Downtown Community Partnership is ...

Famous tech photographer Eric Pickersgill was among them. "I got a notification on Facebook that a friend was going to this fake event about an hour from Charlotte. The local news was covering it.

(KSNW) – Wichita’s Old Cowtown Museum is warning about fake event ... museum posted to Facebook about copycat event posts for several of their events, including their popular Victorian Christmas.

Confused? Rightfully so. The page is a fake Facebook event, mimicking others that have made their rounds in recent years. Fake Facebook events often pop up around major occurrences, like Hurricane ...

Kathryn Mobley, CEO of the Better Business Bureau Serving Acadiana, said scammers are making Facebook event pages posing as popular events ... “They even send them fake receipts and fake ...

“I'm not sure what their motive is, but nonetheless, there's about 15 different downtown Appleton Facebook page events ... on one of the city’s most popular events. “This is new," Stadler ...

The popularity of these claims gain an air of credibility when they’re published in fake news post, which then gets to the top of respected aggregators like Google News or Facebook trending.

Over the last few months the phrase “fake news ... into popularity November 11, 2016, as seen in the timeline below. That date is significant because it is the day after Facebook CEO Mark ...