Posted on 12/15/2016 10:28:24 AM PST by tcrlaf
Facebook is going to start fact checking, labeling, and burying fake news and hoaxes in the News Feed, the company announced on Thursday.
The decision comes after Facebook received heated criticism for its role in spreading a deluge of political misinformation during the U.S. presidential election.
To combat fake news, Facebook has partnered with a shortlist of media organizations, including Snopes and ABC News, that are part of an international fact-checking network lead by Poynter, a nonprofit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Starting as a test with a small percentage of its users in the United States, Facebook will make it easier to report news stories that are fake or misleading. Once fact checkers have confirmed that the story is fake, it will be labeled as such and demoted in the News Feed.
A company spokesperson told Business Insider that the social network will also use other signals, like algorithms that detect whether a story that appears fake is going viral, to determine if it should label the story as fake and bury it in peoples' feeds.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
That will be a closed loop:
Facebook to Snopes and back again!
SNOPES has lost all credibility as fact checker... the spin they use, especially on things political, is mind boggling.
Yes, and it's also called having the fox guard the hen house.
Facebook is a private entity, they can do what they want...Seems to me people on both sides are sort of getting over Facebook....what an opportunity for it to face some REAL competition from some smart, young Conservative upstarts....
I despise Zuckerberg. Maybe it’s because he is Jewish but also an atheist. A Jewish man who denies the role G-d has played in the history of his people is a supreme idiot, IMHO.
Facebook will soon become a leftist echo chamber. Most conservatives will just shut down their account and move onto something else.
Your cunning plan will not work out the way you think.
If implemented, I’ll delete my fb account.
Snopes, hahahahahahahahahaha!
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Every time I go on Facebook
- 1/3 of the posts are banal political opinions, with obligatory links to Mother Jones or Slate
- 1/3 are posts of the Hawaii vacation of someone I went to high school with 30 years ago, and haven’t thought about since
- 1/3 are cat pictures, memes that reinforce the inane political opinions, someone’s children’s artwork, someone, who I went to high school with 30 years ago, selling cheap jewelry or organic cleaning products.
In other words, although it’s not all garbage in the strict sense, I have no time in my day for it.
Who says so? Why.... SNOPES of course!
“Some DOPES” has lost all credibility as fact checker..
Nuttin like Lib feriners help us Americans....
What a scam! Let’s see if they decide that the totally biased lies-by-omission posts about Standing Rock are fake news. That is all over facebook, and the liberals share it with tears in their eyes.
Facebook is a useful platform for some purposes. I am part of a worldwide community of breeders for my rare dog breed, and FB has enabled a huge breakthrough in communication among us all. It is also used for groups related to online classes I take, and is very flexible for that purpose and increases the value of the courses. But I stick to those groups, and unfollow everyone personally, because outside of targeted groups, it is an undesirable neighborhood.
SNOPES still says that Muslims cheering in New York on 911 was fake. Others like Coulter firmly say it is true. Who is lying?
One leftist propaganda website is going to use a second leftist propaganda website to validate the first leftist propaganda website.
Got it.
http://www.snopes.com/black-mob-beats-white-man-for-voting-trump/
So this story, which has got a lot of traction in conservative circles, snopes is saying is unproven. (hmm)
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