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.
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What could possibly be wrong with such "Fair-minded" people judging what is newsworthy, and what isn't?
This is called CENSORSHIP, folks!
If they actually fact checked and blocked fake news, what would there be left to show as trending? Probably more free space to fill with ads.
Well, once you’re publically assisting Merkel in Genocide, what’s a little censorship?
Does anybody actually read facebook for news? I personally don’t read face book ever for anything.
This is called CENSORSHIP, folks!
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If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard of FB deleting and censoring pro-conservatives news and ideas...
And now this? The censorship will only get worse. And the fake news (climate change and all that BS) will get worse.
Why?
Let people decide what news they believe from what sources.
Otherwise you have censorship in the news by a shadowy organization, which is a lot worse and a lot more dangerous.
and who is going to “fact check” snopes?
facebook is digging it’s own grave.
...Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact checkers to combat fake news...
Liberals using liberal fake fact checkers to check facts..
That’s really funny.
The Lying Left trying to distract from their media barrage of constant lies wants to shift attention to what the Left calls “Fake News” which is whatever the Left says it is. The Left itself is fake and everything they do is fake, Forgetabout the Fake Left and their attempted Fakeouts.
Another word for that is CENSORSHIP!!
I don't know. I think once America gets rolling again and Americans are optimistic and industrious, they'll be throwing off the yoke of the Obama years, including the lying media. The vast majority of Americans are truly sick of this crap.
Will Facebook shutdown Facebook ?
Facebook should skip the middle-men and have the Democratic National Committee be their sole source of news!
Who uses facebook for news anyway? Of course, I can’t stand facebook. I get on only when I absolutely have to.
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They could start by refusing to take fake click-bait ads. Every time I go to that website there is an ad telling me someone like Mel Gibson or Clint Eastwood or Tiger Woods has died, just to try to get me to click.
What could possibly go wrong? </S>
I got off the Facebook, and my life is better for it.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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