Facebook enables 'fake news' by reliance on digital advertising – report

Paper co-written by former company exec recommends switching news feed back to chronological listing

Another former Facebook executive has spoken out against the company's current business practices, arguing that they directly enable electoral interference.

Dipayan Ghosh, once a privacy and public policy advisor for the social network, argues now that disinformation of the sort used to interfere in the US election and the EU referendum is strongly linked to the nature of Facebook as an advertising platform.