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Facebook will filter 'fake news' in Germany
- ommunist 10y agocorrectiv.org is independent non-profit, based in Berlin, which is interesting setting. This is a rather small company, with editorial office in Essen. It looks like it relies on 16 journalists (some of them high-calibre), and one traineeto fulfil their duties. Of which Facebook is not the only one. Which inevitably poses a question, how good is this backup and is this not another kind of attempt of a Dutch boy stopping flood of the whole Nederland with his finger in the dam? The dam is of course the German FB, standing the flood of fake news. I failed to recognise how many 'viral' stories on FB are fake, however, so can't really estimate that Correctiv is much of a finger in such a dam.
- chopin 10y agoMajor news outlets in Germany publish unverifiable news from undisclosed sources as well. I fail to see why Facebook should get a special treatment in this regard.
- tdkl 10y agoLeft wing media and governments go hand in hand.
- nom 10y agoOh man I'm so sick of this 'fake news' hype here in Germany. It's the internet. Get used to it! edit: I'm also very curious how Facebook plans to accomplish it. They probably gave the usual response 'yeah we'll fix it', so our politicians and news outlets stop talking about this nonsense.