Facebook today announced that three independent studies have found that the company’s efforts to fight the spread of false news on its site might be working. The three studies — conducted respectively by New York University and Stanford University researchers, the University of Michigan, and French fact-checking organization Les Décodeurs — each found that the volume of false news on Facebook has decreased. Some found that, amongthe false news content present on the site, engagement with it had also gone down. We recently ran a survey to see if users were noticing less spam on the social network, and despite today’s announcement, it seems like misinformation might not be totally eradicated just yet. Here’s what each study found, and how it compares to what users report seeing on their News Feeds. Three Studies of Facebook’s Fight Against False News