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Facebook adds a 'fake news' reporting option
- monochromatic 10y agoThere are some shady sites out there that peddle totally fake news for ad impressions. I'm fine with disrupting their business model. But what are the odds that legitimate (or even fringe, semi-legitimate) right-wing news sites bear the brunt of this movement?
- maxerickson 10y agoI think they at least deserve a chance to try to get it right.
- nitrogen 10y agoIn my community, I could see the opposite happening. Anti-vax marked as true, scientific articles marked as fake.
- XJOKOLAT 10y agoStable door: closed. Horse: bolted. With great power comes great responsibility.
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- heavymark 10y agoYes Facebook did add that feature... last year. Engadget is simply reporting on something Facebook announced they added publicly last year. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/01/news-feed-fyi-showing-fewer-hoaxes/ https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/01/news-feed-fyi-showing-f...
- XJOKOLAT 10y agoWhat proportion of users do you think were aware of it? And, if left to users, considering we have the type of users who believe in a #BoycottStarwars movement, would you really want to leave this feature in the hands of said users?
- brownbat 10y agoThere's a long series of experiments on a phenomenon called "the hostile media effect." Basically if you show two opposing interest groups the same film clip, both will rate it as highly inaccurate and biased against their point of view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect I'm excited for the results of Facebook's experiment, but fully expect this to remain an unsolved problem for the foreseeable future.
- thrill 10y agoBecause everyone knows Facebook users are the epitome of fact curation.