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The goal of Facebook is not to prevent someone from saying something untrue, Zuckerberg said, but to stop fake news from spreading.

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Twitter says the move is to provide users with "authentic information" and prevent spoofed and fake accounts from fooling users. The labels will include what office a person is running for and where.

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AP report: Russia-linked posts may have reached 126 million Facebook users

The company says the total number of agency posts accounted for less than 1 of every 23,000 posts on Facebook.

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