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on Friday September 14 2018, @01:40AM
from the positing-parody-posts-perplexify-perusers dept.
from the positing-parody-posts-perplexify-perusers dept.
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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Also at Engadget, The Washington Post, and MarketWatch.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 14 2018, @05:03PM
That sucks.
The more Facebook (and its social media fellows) plays this censorship game, the more it's going to lose. There will be a backlash. So then they'll ban a progressive person or group to prove they're not biased, and then the progressives will cry, "Whose side are you on, anyway?" It will escalate from there, and if/when the feds come to play, it will be all over.
Washington DC delenda est.