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Facebook will limit reach of groups that share misinformation

20 points by jmsflknr 8y ago

pg_is_a_butt 8y ago
no they wont
xkcd-sucks 8y ago
A bunch of civilians were killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989? FAKE NEWS!
Fins 8y ago
And Facebook will decide what misinformation is?
- ceejayoz 8y ago
  > The Associated Press is now going to start fact-checking some videos in the US, and Facebook will start including “Trust Indicators” when users click to see context around a publication. Those indicators come from The Trust Project, a group built by news organizations that makes those determinations.
  - nine00001 8y ago
    Right, so let's get the news people, that already spread fake news, to verify whether it is true or not. Don't worry. You can trust them. I know I'm being sarcastic, but having news organizations decide if news is trustworthy is like a doctor trying to work on his own cancer, right? I totally want that process to be in the hands of CNN, the same company that tried to dox a teenager over a Trump meme......
  - 75dvtwin 8y ago
    I agree, good start. But I think it will take decades, not years -- before western journalism, and major online news distribution sources will rid themselves of stigma of being 'propaganda arm of US coup orchestrators'. So trusting the members of trust project will have to be earned, not assumed... Recent revelations about Google 'The manual adjustment of search results by a Google-owned platform contradicts a key claim made under oath by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his congressional testimony earlier this month: that his company does not “manually intervene on any search result.' is not helping the trust rebuilding either. [1] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/16/google-youtube-search-blacklist-smoking-gun/ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/16/google-youtube-sea...
  - Fins 8y ago
    Better than nothing, I guess, although FB deciding who is a reliable verification entity isn't all that great either.
ceejayoz 8y ago
Just groups? Not pages? Most of the false information I see shared on Facebook is from pages, not groups.
- nwah1 8y ago
  Pages already had this treatment. Many pages were just shut down entirely.
drngdds 8y ago
Good start. But if Facebook really wants to stop making the world a worse place, they should shut down.

20 points by jmsflknr 8y ago

pg_is_a_butt 8y ago

no they wont

xkcd-sucks 8y ago

A bunch of civilians were killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989? FAKE NEWS!

Fins 8y ago

And Facebook will decide what misinformation is?

ceejayoz 8y ago
> The Associated Press is now going to start fact-checking some videos in the US, and Facebook will start including “Trust Indicators” when users click to see context around a publication. Those indicators come from The Trust Project, a group built by news organizations that makes those determinations.
- nine00001 8y ago
  Right, so let's get the news people, that already spread fake news, to verify whether it is true or not. Don't worry. You can trust them. I know I'm being sarcastic, but having news organizations decide if news is trustworthy is like a doctor trying to work on his own cancer, right? I totally want that process to be in the hands of CNN, the same company that tried to dox a teenager over a Trump meme......
- 75dvtwin 8y ago
  I agree, good start. But I think it will take decades, not years -- before western journalism, and major online news distribution sources will rid themselves of stigma of being 'propaganda arm of US coup orchestrators'. So trusting the members of trust project will have to be earned, not assumed... Recent revelations about Google 'The manual adjustment of search results by a Google-owned platform contradicts a key claim made under oath by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his congressional testimony earlier this month: that his company does not “manually intervene on any search result.' is not helping the trust rebuilding either. [1] https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/16/google-youtube-search-blacklist-smoking-gun/ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/16/google-youtube-sea...
- Fins 8y ago
  Better than nothing, I guess, although FB deciding who is a reliable verification entity isn't all that great either.

ceejayoz 8y ago

Just groups? Not pages? Most of the false information I see shared on Facebook is from pages, not groups.

nwah1 8y ago
Pages already had this treatment. Many pages were just shut down entirely.

drngdds 8y ago

Good start. But if Facebook really wants to stop making the world a worse place, they should shut down.