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Facebook Starts a Fact-Checking Partnership with Reuters

posted by martyb on Thursday February 13 2020, @09:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the truth dept.

Coward, Anonymous writes:

Facebook starts fact-checking partnership with Reuters:

A newly created unit at Reuters will fact-check user-generated photos, videos, headlines and other content for Facebook's U.S. audience in both English and Spanish, the news agency said in a statement. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Facebook works with seven other fact-checking partners in the United States, including Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.

Back in the day when Facebook had six fact-check partners, The Hill wrote:

Together, Facebook's six partners have 26 full-time staff and fact-checked roughly 200 pieces of content per month.

Experts who spoke to The Hill said those changes were insufficient to make a serious dent in the fake accounts and disinformation they say are rampant on Facebook.

[...] "Just the scale of the company itself makes responsible fact-checking pretty difficult, even if they were invested in doing it," Sarah Miller, co-chairwoman of Freedom from Facebook, a coalition of progressive groups calling for breaking up the company.

Facebook has also been criticized for not subjecting posts from political figures to fact-checks.

[...] Miller told The Hill that fact-checking is a distraction from the problem of microtargeting ads, which allow "any bad actor" to "target users with propaganda or scam content."

Traditional journalism has been struggling financially. Perhaps the role of social-media fact-checker will be profitable.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday February 13 2020, @02:46PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 13 2020, @02:46PM (#957721) Journal

    Every Trump supporter knows that Hillary is corrupt. Every Hillary supporter knows the same thing about Trump. Which of these shall we declare to be the objective truth

    Both. That's the objective truth.

    Ask anyone active in (or just cares about) women's sports, and you will almost certainly hear that M-to-F athletes have no place in women's competitions.

    Why is this even relevant? Sport competitions should be a mean of getting one better, not the end of winning a medal.
    Remember? Is "Citius, Altius, Fortius" not "the fastest, the highest, the strongest".

    Objective fact: the Holocaust happened, and millions of people were killed. However, the laws go so far as to prevent any questioning of what's in the history books. If you want to question exactly what happened, discuss how many people of what ethnic extraction were killed? Even if this is a scientific investigation using modern forensics? Forget it. What was once written is sacrosanct.

    [Citation needed]
    No, seriously, the smell of bullshit is too strong. A google search [google.com] reveals quite a large number of hits, even in Germany [soylentnews.org]" rel="url2html-15709">https://www.dw.com/en/germany-establishes-its-first-holocaust-studies-professorship/a-38885174">Germany
    The fact that you may not agree with their findings doesn't make them censorship.

    tl;dr: Fact-checking and censorship are very nearly the same thing.

    Oh, fuck off. Not only everything above has absolutely no logical relation with the so-called conclusion, but saying that looking into the objective reality to get as close as possible to the truth is censorship?
    Like what? You're gonna tell me next that ignorance is as valid as the science and saying gravity keeps the solar system together censors the flat-earthers?

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:15PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:15PM (#957877) Journal

    You're gonna tell me next that ignorance is as valid as the science and saying gravity keeps the solar system together censors the flat-earthers?

    Why yes, that's EXACTLY what they will tell you.

    New Ohio Law Lets Students Give Wrong Answers on Tests for Religious Reasons [newsweek.com]

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:23PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:23PM (#957881) Journal

      They are free to speak, I'm free to shut my ears down to their speech.

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