"The solution is not to just tell people if something is fake or not," Cui said. "The solution is to develop a kind of a news auto-immune system."
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A group of students has reportedly come up with a browser extension that can help combat fake news.
The students developed the plug-in, called "Open Mind," during a 36-hour hackathon at Yale University. It works by notifying people when they come across fake and biased news stories, The Associated Press reported.
The four-person team that developed the plug-in won the competition from Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. The competition challenged teams to find ways to combat fake news.
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The winners of the competition will have the chance in the spring to meet with members of Congress.
The plug-in, which works with Google Chrome, shows a warning screen when a user goes onto a site that is known for putting out fake news.
It also works to find whether news stories have a slant and can recommend to users stories with different viewpoints.
"So let's say there is an article that is very pro-Trump on a topic," said Jeff An, a member of the team that developed the extension.
"We would then try to give you something more left of center. We can go out and find for you that alternative article," he said.
Another member of the team said social media sites "grow bubbles."
"They make it extremely easy for people to only follow people with similar interests, so often there is no real opportunity for them to be confronted with an opposing viewpoint," Michael Lopez-Brau said, according to the AP.
"They've allowed us to silo people off at a distance," he said.
A Facebook spokeswoman told the AP the company is "building products, many of which are very similar to what the students came up with at Yale." The spokeswoman said Facebook wanted to talk to the students about their product.
Alex Cui, another member of the team, said that in order to combat fake news more must be done than just alerting people.
