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Facebook has detailed its plan to deal with fake news appearing on the platform. It involves labeling false information with a link to a fact-checking site, as well as warning users when they attempt to repost these flagged items and giving them a worse position in the news feed:
Facebook has struggled for months over whether it should crack down on false news stories and hoaxes that are being spread on its site. Now, it has finally come to a decision. The social network is going to partner with the Poynter International Fact-Checking Network, which includes groups such as Snopes and the Associated Press, to evaluate articles flagged by Facebook users. If those articles do not pass the smell test for the fact-checkers, Facebook will label that evaluation whenever they are posted or shared, along with a link to the organization that debunked the story. Many of the organizations said that they're not getting paid for this.
"We have a responsibility to reduce the spread of fake news on our platform," Adam Mosseri, Facebook vice president of product development, told The Washington Post. Mosseri said the social network still wants to be a place where people with all kinds of opinions can express themselves but has no interest in being the arbiter of what's true and what's not for its 1 billion users.
The new system will work like this: If a story on Facebook is patently false — saying that a celebrity is dead when they are still alive, for example — then users will see a notice that the story has been disputed or debunked. People who try to share stories that have been found false will also see an alert before they post. Flagged stories will appear lower in the news feed than unflagged stories. Users will also be able to report potentially false stories to Facebook or send messages directly to the person posting a questionable article.
The Pew Research Center also released a survey about fake news, finding that a majority of Americans believe that fake news has caused confusion about the basic facts of current events.
(Score: 2, Troll) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday December 18 2016, @11:13PM
Marginalize TwitFace.
Friends have been moving to Discord because of SJWs on TwitFace banning their accounts. TwitFace doesn't even look at the pictures before banning. Most of these are women and some are even “real” women. SJWs don't care. All assigned males who like the looks of a cosplayer are rapists and if a womyn-born-womyn likes the looks of a cosplayer, she's a traitor to her own gender and has internalized misogyny.
It's a clusterfuck. Just walk away. There are other ways on the internet to communicate. As an added bonus, most other ways also don't create a permanent record for the perusal of prospective employers.