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New Instagram tool lets users flag misinformation
The Hill ^ | 08-16-19 | EMILY BIRNBAUM

Posted on 08/16/2019 1:18:10 PM PDT by Monrose72

Instagram unveiled a new tool this week that will allow users to report misinformation spreading on its platform. The new reporting feature is the latest installment in Instagram's ongoing battle to stave off the scourge of misinformation — including medical hoaxes, scams and Russian-inspired disinformation campaigns — that have flourished for years on the image-sharing platform owned by Facebook. By the end of the month, users in the U.S. will be able to report images that they believe spread misinformation. Those flagged posts will be reviewed by Instagram's newly-established pilot fact-checking program.

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1 posted on 08/16/2019 1:18:10 PM PDT by Monrose72
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To: Monrose72

facebook has had this for years... it is called ‘LIKE’


2 posted on 08/16/2019 1:21:10 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Monrose72

What could possibly go wrong?


3 posted on 08/16/2019 1:21:20 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Monrose72
New Instagram tool lets users flag misinformation

Heretofore called "conservative speech"

4 posted on 08/16/2019 1:21:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Monrose72

Feature unavailable on CNN/MSNBC/Rachel Madcows and other leftist accounts, because everything say is 100% correct.


5 posted on 08/16/2019 1:22:33 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Still Thinking

Exactly.


6 posted on 08/16/2019 1:23:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Monrose72

Red Flag! Red Flag! confiscate their Internets!


7 posted on 08/16/2019 1:25:30 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: teeman8r

Dig deeper and you can flag/report posts on Fakebook. But their standards are not evenly applied and Left wing hate and antiChristian speech and violent rhetoric and fake news are not against communisty standards.


8 posted on 08/16/2019 1:48:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Commitee)
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To: Still Thinking

The Yelp review of the art world...


9 posted on 08/16/2019 1:48:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Commitee)
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To: Balding_Eagle

This will not end well. Did they ever consider the internet troll fest they’re creating?


10 posted on 08/16/2019 1:51:16 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Monrose72

Soooo.....anything from CNN.


11 posted on 08/16/2019 1:53:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Monrose72

Well, anti-Trump crap is posted all the time, get busy flagging it.


12 posted on 08/16/2019 2:04:23 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Monrose72

These social media platforms are eating themselves. They can’t see how this ‘reporting tool’ will be wielded like a weapon against the minority political view?


13 posted on 08/16/2019 2:04:59 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: Monrose72

It will so overload their system they will have to shut it off!..................


14 posted on 08/16/2019 2:11:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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