Some worry that dubious sources of information will fill the gap left by the mainstream sort. “With the ban on news, there has been an explosion of disinformation and misinformation,” says Pascale St-Onge, the minister responsible for the act. NewsGuard, a fact-checking organisation, found t...
Snopes, from the 2016 election up until the beginning of this year, was one of those Facebook fact-checking partners in the U.S. The partnership ended when Snopes’ vice president of operations, Vinny Green, realized that Snopes was becoming far too reliant on Facebook’s money to survive....
But in fact most of us have just two close friends — down from an average(平均水平) of three 25 years ago, a study says. Researchers (研究者) say there is no need to worry about that. Instead, they say that while some of us may be getting “more vulnerable (脆弱的)”, many ...
Facebook hires Reuters to fact-check posts, but politicians can still lie in ads Facebook removes some Russian, Iranian accounts for spreading fake memes Snopes, the internet’s favorite fact-checking site, is having a good week. It scored a win when Facebook said it removed over 600 profil...
Facebook has been pulling down harmful coronavirus misinformation and works with more than 60 fact-checking organizations, including the Associated Press and Reuters, to review content on the social network. In April, Facebook put warning labels on about 50 million posts related to COVID-19. Sinc...
climatechange, elections or other topics, we're making sure fewer people see misinformation in our apps. We will reduce the distribution of all news feed posts from a Facebook account if they repeatedly share content that has been evaluated by one of our fact-checking partners, "the Facebook...
theColumbia Journalism Reviewabout this process quoted unnamed checkers who professed to be unsure of how Facebook was picking sites for review. Some wondered why mainstream-media stories, like from Fox or MSNBC, were being filtered out. Others wondered why Facebook wasn’t fact-checking paid ...
, a feature that allows users to read news articles from select websites without leaving the social network. after the 2016 us presidential election, when it was criticized for spreading misinformation, facebook began partnering with outside fact-checking organizations to combat misinformation. around...
As I noted in the previous post: the Big Tech leaders are untrustworthy people. The fact that they wield so much power and influence over American beliefs and attitudes is terrifying. Facebook announced shortly after Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested after the Kenosha shootings, “We’ve designated ...
see if a story has been flagged as disputed. “We’ve started a program to work with third-party fact checking organizations that are signatories ofPoynter’s International Fact-Checking Code of Principles,”Mosseri wrote, “We’ll use the reports from our community, along with other signals,...