Zuckerberg Cites Unreliable Liberal Fact-Checker As Objective News Source

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has outlined plans for how he hopes to combat fake news on the site. This is the main reason for both Facebook and Google working in tandem to put a stop on spreading fake news online. This cross-checking enables them to filter links they’re confident about.

Facebook has long argued that it’s not a media company, but that it’s a technology platform that simply carries information.

Listening: working with journalists for input and fact-checking systems.

President Barack Obama said in Germany on Thursday that, “If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, and particularly in an age of social media, where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems”.

Almost half of Americans get their news from Facebook, according to the Pew Research Center. Even though he claims to “hate Trump”, he seems largely unbothered because people will “post everything, believe anything” and “you wouldn’t believe how much money I make from it”.

Among the fake news reports that circulated ahead of the USA election were reports erroneously alleging Pope Francis had endorsed Trump and that a federal agent who had been investigating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was found dead. You know, like Fox News – and Donald Trump’s cabinet.

Just like regular News Feed, users can flag posts as inappropriate inside of Workplace, but those posts are reviewed by a company administrator. Many have pushed Facebook to exercise editorial discretion in flagging the falsified disseminated via their platform, and a group of college students revealed how easy that effort could be. Scott Shackford, an associate editor at Reason.com, criticized Zimdar’s list for including websites that didn’t necessarily produce fake stories, but instead offered an ideological bent created to “advance a particular point of view”. Among them are the source’s credibility, and cross-referencing the content with other news sources.

Facebook will also look to third parties for help with verifying news sources.

“We do not integrate or display ads in apps or sites containing content that is illegal, misleading or deceptive, which includes fake news”, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. And so, you know, I don’t think he gets to duck responsibility. “They saw it as a way to advocate”, he said. “It is much much better to let each individual company decide for themselves”, Adractas added. The only hitch: That assumes people want one.

Such a simple solution can be helpful, but for now, it’s up to the user to implement a verification tool such as FiB.

Improving the accuracy of “related articles” that it suggests for users to read.

Zuckerberg said in a speech at a summit of top leaders from the Asia-Pacific that while globalisation has its problems, the world must fight the urge to “disconnect”. He posted the seven-point plan on his Facebook profile, [[ https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103269806149061 ]] emphasizing that Facebook does not normally make such plans public.