USA — Facebook has started giving scores based on trustworthiness of users on the social media site.<br /><br />According to The Washington Post, Facebook has developed the ratings system over the past year and would be used to assign users a score from zero to one.<br /><br />Facebook has not disclosed what criteria they use to determine a user's scores, or whether the scores are used in any other way.<br /><br />Facebook claims the system was created in an effort to combat fake news.<br /><br />Facebook has given the option to allow users to report or flag problematic content on the site.<br /><br />However, they have discovered that some people were falsely reporting content just because they didn't agree with it.<br /><br />A spokeswoman from Facebook told The BBC, they are doing this to ensure the "fight against misinformation is as effective as possible."<br /><br />Users apparently have no way of knowing what their rating is, at least for now.<br /><br />Other tech companies such as Uber and Twitter also give their users scores and ratings. <br /><br />Even the Chinese government has a system in place in which gives its citizens a "social credit" score based on their behavior both online and off.
