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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that the company is blocking US President Donald Trump from its platform “indefinitely.” The ban will be in place for “at least the next two weeks,” the company said.

This is the first time a major platform has banned Trump.

Over 150 million Americans are on Facebook, and while only 6 percent of Facebook users get their political news from Facebook , if you're reading this, it probably means that a much higher percentage of your friends are political junkies. Here's a guide to the five different types of political friends on Facebook. Do any of them sound familiar?

Fake news is actually really easy to spot -- if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy Guide.