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Source? Can’t find anything online that indicates they are partnering with political activists to block websites.

by makeee 9y ago

satysin 9y ago
I assume OP is talking about this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42065644 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42065644 Edit: Misread, thought OP was talking about Google not Mozilla.
- catshirt 9y ago
  their use of "but" would suggest OP is definitely talking about Mozilla
  - satysin 9y ago
    Ah yes, apologies, I have edited my post to clarify my mistake.
numerlo 9y ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information-trust-initiative-building-movement-fight-misinformation-online/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information...
- makeee 9y ago
  Thanks, although link doesn’t support anything in parent commenter’s claim.
jccalhoun 9y ago
definite [citation needed] on that one
SyneRyder 9y ago
The confusion seems to be an AFP story conflating two separate programs. The AFP story mentions Mozilla at the same time as an organization called Full Fact, that has a product that does automated live fact checking. It was initially designed for use during televised political debates, where it could show "correct" and "incorrect" warning popups on screen in real time according to what was said: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mozilla-fact-checker-fake-news.html https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mozilla-fact-checker-fake-news... (Apologies for the awful link source, I can't find a primary AFP link. Several other sites that have published the same identical story.) Full Fact does appear to be a real organization, they claim to already work with the BBC, Guardian & other media partners, as well as Google. Some of the controversy seems to be over their grant funding from Omidyar Network and an organization founded by George Soros. (Whether that's a reason for concern, I have no idea.) https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/automated-fact-checking-full-fact/ https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/automated-fact-checking-f... https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/awarded-500000-omidyar-network-open-society-foundations-automated-factchecking/ https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/awarded-500000-omidyar-ne... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/fake-news-full-fact-software-immune-system-journalism-soros-omidyar https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/fake-news...

Source? Can’t find anything online that indicates they are partnering with political activists to block websites.

by makeee 9y ago

Source? Can’t find anything online that indicates they are partnering with political activists to block websites.

I assume OP is talking about this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42065644 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42065644 Edit: Misread, thought OP was talking about Google not Mozilla.

catshirt 9y ago
their use of "but" would suggest OP is definitely talking about Mozilla
- satysin 9y ago
  Ah yes, apologies, I have edited my post to clarify my mistake.

numerlo 9y ago

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information-trust-initiative-building-movement-fight-misinformation-online/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information...

makeee 9y ago
Thanks, although link doesn’t support anything in parent commenter’s claim.

jccalhoun 9y ago

definite [citation needed] on that one

SyneRyder 9y ago

The confusion seems to be an AFP story conflating two separate programs. The AFP story mentions Mozilla at the same time as an organization called Full Fact, that has a product that does automated live fact checking. It was initially designed for use during televised political debates, where it could show "correct" and "incorrect" warning popups on screen in real time according to what was said: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mozilla-fact-checker-fake-news.html https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mozilla-fact-checker-fake-news... (Apologies for the awful link source, I can't find a primary AFP link. Several other sites that have published the same identical story.) Full Fact does appear to be a real organization, they claim to already work with the BBC, Guardian & other media partners, as well as Google. Some of the controversy seems to be over their grant funding from Omidyar Network and an organization founded by George Soros. (Whether that's a reason for concern, I have no idea.) https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/automated-fact-checking-full-fact/ https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/automated-fact-checking-f... https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/awarded-500000-omidyar-network-open-society-foundations-automated-factchecking/ https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/awarded-500000-omidyar-ne... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/fake-news-full-fact-software-immune-system-journalism-soros-omidyar https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/fake-news...