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posted by martyb on Friday September 14 2018, @01:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the positing-parody-posts-perplexify-perusers dept.

After Russia was accused of using memes and viral images to influence elections, Facebook will now fact-check pictures and videos

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.

Meme Review! Meme Police!

Also at Engadget, The Washington Post, and MarketWatch.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Friday September 14 2018, @08:10AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday September 14 2018, @08:10AM (#734736) Journal

    Most memes in my feed are lame and pro left (because friends). From the right I see mostly infographics. During the so called family day the left posted a photo with very few people and the right posted a photo of the very same place with much more people. Either one posted way before the rally started, or the other posted an archived photo of something else.
    I don't expect this to change.

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  • (Score: 2) by Aegis on Friday September 14 2018, @09:43PM

    by Aegis (6714) on Friday September 14 2018, @09:43PM (#735084)

    During the so called family day the left posted a photo with very few people and the right posted a photo of the very same place with much more people

    Well I know this one guy who likes to lie about crowd sizes. And, he's not so great at hiring the best people.

    So my guess is that this guy was desperately trying to figure out how to photoshop and facebook and he accidentally posted his practice shots. [theguardian.com]