Zuckerberg Capitulates - Sort Of.
Is this the usual Friday night trash dumping, or do you choose to believe the excuse that he was flying to Lima?
At any rate it looks like the plan is to use more automated tools and crowd sourcing. We all know how that goes. Creationists swarm evolution news stories to report them false, Gateway Pundit becomes the authoritative source on white house reporting… etc. etc. I don’t have much confidence in FB getting this right since their reporting interface is such crap already.
A lot of you have asked what we’re doing about misinformation, so I wanted to give an update.
The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously. Our goal is to connect people with the stories they find most meaningful, and we know people want accurate information. We’ve been working on this problem for a long time and we take this responsibility seriously. We’ve made significant progress, but there is more work to be done.
Historically, we have relied on our community to help us understand what is fake and what is not. Anyone on Facebook can report any link as false, and we use signals from those reports along with a number of others — like people sharing links to myth-busting sites such as Snopes — to understand which stories we can confidently classify as misinformation. Similar to clickbait, spam and scams, we penalize this content in News Feed so it’s much less likely to spread.
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