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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, @05:10PM
They can't.
As a joke my wife and I "sext" each other when one of us is travelling on business. It's never anything naughty. She sends me a picture of her big toe, and I send her the crook of my elbow; she sends me her knee, and I send the heel of my right foot; and so on. Even when it's the two of us humans we can't always make out what it is, except that it's skin colored. An algorithm is not going to better that--it will flag it every time.
Washington DC delenda est.