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Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Despite the best efforts of Mark Zuckerberg to downplay Facebook's role in the election of Donald Trump, the scrutiny of how fake news is spread on the platform has intensified.

Buzzfeed News is reporting that "more than dozens" of Facebook employees have created an unofficial task force dedicated to addressing the issue.

Buzzfeed quoted one member of that task force, who did not want to be named over fears for their job.

"[Mark Zuckerberg] knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season," the source said.

The election shook out the way it did because there were ways around the narrative the media was pushing?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:01PM (#427732)

    reporting them once in the least noticeable way possible and then refusing to discuss "old news" again

    Reminds me of this:

    Moscow radio has moved short news items on the progress of the Apollo mission. Russians wanting full account of the flight have to have good short-wave sets and a knowledge of a foreign language. Russian language-broadcasts from the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corporation were heavily jammed as usual.

    The landing of the Apollo moon module was not reported here immediately, but later Moscow radio announced it briefly.

    https://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/nasa/072169sci-nasa-gwertzman.html [nytimes.com]

    Have you ever heard of Luna 15?