Facebook will start fact-checking images and videos, the company said Thursday, expanding its review efforts to posts that are traditionally harder to monitor.
"People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day. We know that this kind of sharing is particularly compelling because it's visual. That said, it also creates an easy opportunity for manipulation by bad actors," Facebook said in a blog post.
Edited photos and strong visuals were common among the posts by Russian agents attempting to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other global elections, according to examples released by members of Congress.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @03:07AM (2 children)
Yeah, no shit. Excellent comment you wrote there.
It's pretty disturbing how few people seem to realize that F4c3b00k is being used as a propaganda tool.
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I use F4c3b00k as a litmus test, myself.
If you use it my company won't hire you. We'll use some other excuse when we tell you we can't hire you,
but off the record that could well be the real reason. None of this is documented in any form that could be
used as evidence in a lawsuit, so don't waste your time telling me my company will be sued, because we are
not going to allow that to happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @04:43AM
The only problem is you might need to hire a gardener to clean up the tumbleweeds blowing through your interview room.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @11:20AM
I'm so smart your company won't be able to tell that I use Facebook.