News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
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News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
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#2Once a story is flagged, it can’t be made into an ad and promoted, either.
After a single flag from a single user?
Re: News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
#3Once a story is flagged, it can’t be made into an ad and promoted, either. After a single flag from a single user?
> We’ll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations. If the fact checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why. Stories that have been disputed may also appear lower in News Feed. It will still be possible to share these stories, but you will see a warning that the story has been disputed as you share. Once a story is flagged, it can’t be made into an ad and promoted, either.
So, "flagged" means "determined to be fake by a fact checking organization contracted by Facebook that disputes the article".
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#4ok, so now the obvious question becomes, who fact checks the fact checkers?
i don't blame facebook, but the people that have been asking for this i guess are about to get what they deserve: more consolidation of the power of persuasion of the masses into the hands of facebook. want to instantly discredit a story? just UPDATE stories SET disputed = t WHERE ID = ?
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#5Once a story is flagged, it can’t be made into an ad and promoted, either. After a single flag from a single user?
> We’ll use the reports from our community, along with other signals, to send stories to these organizations. If the fact checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why. Stories that have been disputed may also appear lower in News Feed. It will still be possible to share these stories, but you will see a warning th…
Yep, just caught that myself. Sorry, it was two large screenshots up and I missed it. :-) Thanks!
Re: News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
#6I wonder if this will be as sketchy as politifact? I hope it won't be, but I reckon it might be. (What I mean is: extremely uncharitable readings of things that they don't like, but overly charitable readings of anything that they like.)
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#7How about a setting to block all link shares if this is supposedly such a huge threat?
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#8The timing of this makes it seem politically motivated. I've seen plenty of fake news on my liberal feed. Things like 9/11 conspiracy theories, anti-vaccination stories, stories about the dangers of genetically modified foods, etc.
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#9The timing of this makes it seem politically motivated. I've seen plenty of fake news on my liberal feed. Things like 9/11 conspiracy theories, anti-vaccination stories, stories about the dangers of genetically modified foods, etc.
Does it matter what the motivations are if they are using the same criteria for filtering all kinds of fake news?
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#10I wonder if this will be as sketchy as politifact? I hope it won't be, but I reckon it might be. (What I mean is: extremely uncharitable readings of things that they don't like, but overly charitable readings of anything that they like.)
I would expect that behaviour from any political news fact checker, humans being what they are.