Posted on 05/27/2021 12:34:18 AM PDT by Mount Athos
oday, we’re launching new ways to inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated by a fact-checker as well as taking stronger action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on Facebook. Whether it’s false or misleading content about COVID-19 and vaccines, climate change, elections or other topics, we’re making sure fewer people see misinformation on our apps.
More Context For Pages That Repeatedly Share False Claims We want to give people more information before they like a Page that has repeatedly shared content that fact-checkers have rated, so you’ll see a pop up if you go to like one of these Pages. You can also click to learn more, including that fact-checkers said some posts shared by this Page include false information and a link to more information about our fact-checking program. This will help people make an informed decision about whether they want to follow the Page.
Expanding Penalties For Individual Facebook Accounts Since launching our fact-checking program in late 2016, our focus has been on reducing viral misinformation. We’ve taken stronger action against Pages, Groups, Instagram accounts and domains sharing misinformation and now, we’re expanding some of these efforts to include penalties for individual Facebook accounts too. Starting today, we will reduce the distribution of all posts in News Feed from an individual’s Facebook account if they repeatedly share content that has been rated by one of our fact-checking partners. We already reduce a single post’s reach in News Feed if it has been debunked.
Redesigned Notifications When People Share Fact-Checked Content We currently notify people when they share content that a fact-checker later rates, and now we’ve redesigned these notifications to make it easier to understand when this happens. The notification includes the fact-checker’s article debunking the claim as well as a prompt to share the article with their followers. It also includes a notice that people who repeatedly share false information may have their posts moved lower in News Feed so other people are less likely to see them.
mmm..my bad..its PUBLICALLY traded...not “privately held” ...but is still a private business...not a public utility
Facebook is so yesterday.
There goes anything fro the demoncrats or Fauzi on Fakebook.
Lets start with facebook then. All they want to do is change the facts.
Agree...time to move to a different place...peoples information is being sucked out and sold. A horrible abuse.
If they want to fact check...start with cnn, and the democratic party.
Censoring Bastards!
Define ‘misinformation’ other than something that runs contrary to your beliefs, ideology, politics, etc., kkthx!!
Their activities are best described by the word: "Vichy". They are the sources of double-speak !
If FB sensors information about something that is hurting people, are they opening themselves up to some huge lawsuits?
Facebook shut my account down completely. The account is still there but no one can see anything I’ve posted, including my public content. I’ve been erased. Their reason was “suspicious activity” which they never explained. In other words I posted items their fake checkers disapproved, mainly electoral fraud and covid info. You know, I don’t even miss Facebook. They can KMA.
Stop using Facebook.
Don’t let some company decide what YOU can say and think.
“FaceBook can create whatever miserable censorship rules they want. It’s a privately held corporation. Whether YOU use it or not is YOUR decision.”
100% TRUTH. I use it. I like it. I use private chat rooms with friends and family. I don’t engage the Leftist Trolls in any way, shape or form.
Only been in FB Jail a few times. Still don’t know why, LOL!
Exactly.
Censorship is alive and well in the U.S.S.A.
Those are excuses, not reasons. IMHO
No one should be on facebook. Not anymore and for no reason
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Will YOU pay for my SMS text messages to/ from the Philippines? Or phone calls to/from the Philippines so I can contact my family?
Please tell Apple to allow FaceTime on android devices…
Regular IDD rate: $0.40 / minute
Didn’t think you will. Unless you are, you need to stop telling people what they should and shouldn’t use. Facebook messenger and WhatsApp are FREE
Or just get of Facebook and lose all communications with my family???
Why do we care? I certainly don’t. All FReepers have cancelled their logons with the Devil, just as I have done. Right?
RIGHT???
/s
The most ignorant people I know refer to FB for their ‘news’; unfortunately one is my father (another is my wife). They seek out others to reinforce their views. FB accomplishes that function with their algorithm. ‘Fighting’ it, as some who stubbornly remain on the platform argue, is an impossible task. Leaving is the ONLY way to punish them. Another platform will replace it.
It’s hard to stay sane in an insane asylum. And with reactions to revelations on the virus origins being an example, their heads may truly explode when the facts are revealed on the election...ANOTHER area of censorship.
mmm..FaceBook can create whatever miserable censorship rules they want.
Its a privately held corporation.
Whether YOU use it or not is YOUR decision.
This is true and I deleted my ~14 year old account when they banned Trump.
Having said that, American companies should actually embrace American values such as free speech! Perhaps wishful thinking on my part though...
I’ve never had a Facebook or Twitter account and the more I learn about them the less I like about them.
h/t pookie18's cartoons
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