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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.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fadrian on Thursday February 13 2020, @06:22PM (6 children)
Who is this Hillary that conservatives keep harping on about? Wasn't she in the government about 50 billion years ago or something? Why do they keep hollering about someone who's so irrelevant?
That is all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @12:47AM
Because Hillary gots electrolemails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boy_tLWeqA [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 14 2020, @01:43AM (4 children)
Yeah...it's weird how the same people who keep going "she lost, get over it" just can't seem to get over it. Then again, a fair number of them fly the Confederate battle flag, i.e., the 160-year-old Traitors' Cum Sock On a Stick, so... :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @08:20AM
You obviously haven't been paying attention to her urges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @08:27PM (2 children)
I'm honestly a little worried about how emotionally compromised these d00ds are, their need to "win" seems to trump everything else. Argue a point where they think they are right and logic, decency, and basic common sense just disappear in the most unironic way.
I do believe this is the precursor to fascist takeovers, the ends justify the means with no limits. Buzzy boy just whinged on about immigrants in detention camps and how it is a voluntary situation of "don't break the law and don't go to jail." No need to consider basic human rights, the actual illegal detainments, or the morally defunct imprisonment and abuse of children. Nope, just "ILLEGAL!"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @12:44AM
Yes, here comes the National Socilaist Bernie Sherts to make your dreams come true.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 15 2020, @01:15AM
Eeeeeyup. GOP, as others have said, stands for "gaslight, obfuscate, project." Their central motor is that they are entirely emotion-driven, while at the same time are conditioned to believe that everyone *else* is and that they and they alone are logical and rational.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...