Posted on 04/12/2017 4:36:54 PM PDT by spintreebob
We want to stop the spread of false news on Facebook. Learn more about the work we're doing. As we work to limit the spread, here are some timps on what to look out for: ......
Be skeptical of headlines.
If you see a story in News Feed that you believe is false, you can report it to Facebook.
1 Tap v next to the post you'd like to mark as false.
2 Tap Report post.
3 Tap It's a false news story
4 Tap Mark this post as false news
How news stories are marked as disputed: ....
What could possibly go wrong with this approach? /sarc
If it's from the NY Slimes or Wash ComPost it's fake news.
I reported that post on facebook as hate speech :-)
LOL!
5 If it is from ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, CNN, the NY Times, Washington Post, or a local TV network affiliate, mark it as fake news.
Who goes to Facebook for news. They shouldn’t be able to vote if they do.
We’re witnessing the rapid evolution of the term ‘fake news.’
What should mean, well, fake news has now become anything that pokes a hole in a liberal’s safe space.
The fine art of censorship. Zuckerberg, the Obama suck-hole learned it from China, after plying his pimp trade to aid Obama’s Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya and Syria. We know how that turned out, mayhem , spread of Islamo-fascism and in Egypt, the utter defeat of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Facebook is done in the West.
I look forward to a v iable freedom 1st amendment alternative
Yep. China style censorship:
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23 November 2016
Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China, according to a report in the New York Times.
The social network refused to confirm or deny the software’s existence, but said in a statement it was “spending time understanding and learning more” about China.
No decisions about the company’s approach in the country had yet been made, a spokeswoman said.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group which campaigns for better privacy online, told the BBC the project sounded “extremely disturbing”.
“Kudos to the Facebook employees who brought this to the attention of the New York Times,” said the EFF’s global policy analyst Eva Galperin.
“It’s very nice to know there are some principled people still working there.”
The sources quoted by the New York Times - both current and former employees - stressed that like many pieces of software worked on internally, it may never be implemented.
Censorship concessions
Since 2009, the only way to access Facebook in China has been via a virtual private network - software designed to “spoof” your real location and avoid local internet restrictions.
Facebook, which has 1.8 billion active users, is aggressively looking to expand in parts of the world beyond its existing markets.
In the developing world, that means experimenting with new technology to connect rural areas.
And in China, it appears the site is at the very least considering making concessions to China’s notoriously tightly-monitored internet.
According to employees quoted anonymously by the New York Times’ reporter Mike Isaac, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was questioned about the plans in an all-staff meeting earlier this summer.
“It’s better for Facebook to be a part of enabling conversation, even if it’s not yet the full conversation,” he is reported to have said while stressing it was early days.
Facebook’s spokeswoman would not confirm or deny the quote was accurate.
Mr Zuckerberg recently spent time with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, as well as taking time to learn Mandarin.
Third-party company
Facebook regularly removes content from the network at the request of governments.
It makes this process relatively public with a yearly report detailing the quantity and nature of take-down requests.
Where this software would differ is in that it would enable a third-party, likely a Chinese company working with Facebook, to prevent messages from appearing in the first place.
The range of topics censored in mainland China is vast. Most famously, searches related to the Tiananmen Square yield no results relating to the 1989 massacre.
Facebook isn’t the first first Silicon Valley giant to grapple with the moral maze of doing business in China.
Google famously pulled out of mainland China after a backlash surrounding the censorship of search results. It now routes all traffic to Google Hong Kong.
LinkedIn, the network for professionals, does censor some content - although as the firm isn’t typically seen as a host of public debate, the move is not seen as being nearly as contentious.
If Facebook follows LinkedIn’s lead, the EFF’s Ms Galperin said “Facebook would be trading in their principles in exchange for access to the market. It would have tremendous implications for human rights.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38073949
Somehow I doubt that Facebook wrote "timps"....
G Q magazine on Facebook has a headline
TRUMP ANNOYED THAT EVERYONE THINKS BANNON IS THE REAL PRESIDENT
I submit that is fake headline, fake news.
1. Even a snowflake has to be schizo beyond help to think that Bannon is the real president. Almost everyone believes just the opposite of what GQ alleges.
2. TRUMP certainly does not think that everyone believes this stupid allegation.
3. TRUMP is not easily annoyed. He has a rather thick skin.
Should FReepers FREEP FACEBOOK and bombard FACEBOOK with corrections to their fake headlines and fake news? We could do it to both the same story in a coordinated effort and ad hoc.
I don’t see a “v” to tap when I go to the Washington Post...
Let us see:
If the “fake news” is from ABCNNBCBS, then it has been verified as “fake news” ......
Are you banning CNN and MSNBC? If not you are not stopping fake news!
Well since there’s more liberal people on fb than conservative, guess who wins?
I think it's our duty.
I just reported this as false: https://www.facebook.com/CREDO/posts/10156028068675968
You misspelled “FakeBook”...
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