Four undergraduates, who took part in a hackathon at Princeton University, have come up with a plugin that identifies what is genuine from what is not on Facebook.

The students Nabanite De, Anent Goel, Mark Craft, and Qinglin Chen call their venture "FiB: Stop living a lie." They came up with the Google Chrome program in just 36 hours. The Google Chrome extension classifies each post, as verified or non-verified with the use of artificial intelligence.

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The module these students created has been made open-source to permit other developers to understand, change, and enhance it, the Washington Post reported. 

Facebook has been denounced for spreading fake news and deceiving stories that are practically undefined from actual news. Since Facebook has such a wide reach, the posts it shows have a wide influence on the public.

The stories on Facebook got so terrible that it incited President Barack Obama to describe the world's largest social network as a "dust cloud of nonsense," according to Business Insider. Many Americans are pointing fingers to Facebook for Donald Trump's triumph. A late Pew Study states that 63 percent of U.S. grown-ups use Facebook as their fundamental source of news.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has, however, dismissed the allegations that Facebook has a hand in spreading false news. He has also slammed allegations that his social media platform propelled Trump to victory in the 2016 US Presidential Elections.

Numerous Facebook representatives are reportedly also annoyed with the speculations about the company, and a group of free thinker Facebook workers have volunteered to investigate the issue.