we were joined by the tessa -- we were joined by tessa lyons, facebook news feed product manager fromtanford, california, to talk about what else facebook is doing to fight fake news. tessa: we have been working hard to stop the spread of false news. given the scale, as you mentioned, we have been using both technology and human review. i would love to talk with you more about those actions. what we are sharing today are updates on our efforts to communicate more openly about our actions and to be held accountable for the progress we are making. specifically, we are sharing a short film that gives an inside look at the teams fighting false news on facebook. the work that we do to disrupt financial incentives, to fight fake accounts, and to reduce the overall spread of this type of content. we are also sharing that we are going to be working with academics in order to provide them with data to help all of us better understand and measure the volume and effects of misinformation and the impact of our efforts to fight it. emily: you're launching a new short film called "facing facts," wh

emily: that was tessa lyons, facebook newsfeed product manager.oming up, anticipating a game with even more popularity this year. we are talking to e-sports' ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: sony is set to solidify its position as the largest music publisher in the world when it buys emi publishing for about $2 billion. it comes in the form of a 60% equity stake. the ceo says this will set sony up for years to come. >> this move is a way to intensify our content and ip business. sony and emi combined own the copyrights of 4.4 million songs, . deal, sony becomes one of the largest music publishers in the world. we expect steady income from music publishing, and it will be a key growth area in the long-term. emily: epic games has announced prize money for fortnight. for whathas come out this will look like, but if the previous tournament is a preview of what will come, it will be a serious game changer. opened at the e-sports arena in las vegas. the companys is around the space and others around the world that allow gamers to meet up in what could b

s>> reporter: tessa lyons product manager of newsfeed integrity. she works with two competing goals in mind: keep the platform free and open to a broad spectrum of ideas and opinions and reduce the spread of misinformaston. why not elete it? >> well, it's an interesting question and i ts nk, look theral tension here. we believe that we're not arbite of truth and the people don't want us to be arbiters of truth. we also belie that censoring d fully removing information unless it violates our community tastandards is not the expon from our community. so we work to reduce the damage that it can do and ensure that when it is seen,t's surrounded by additional context. >> reporter: even though nearly half of all americans get their news from faceok, the company sists it is a technology enterprise--ot in the business of making editorial judgments. so they are outsourcing the work. the most clear-cut problem: content that is demonstrably false. to grapple with that they have t tuo a 23rd-party fact checkers globally, including one of the internet's origina