Facebook's New Plan to Deal With Fake News is Too Vague and Too Late
Around 2.30 am on Saturday morning Mark Zuckerberg posted Facebook’s new plan for dealing with fake news.
Around 2.30 am on Saturday morning Mark Zuckerberg posted Facebook’s new plan for dealing with fake news.
Brad Webster was just showing a friend around the isolated town of Unalakleet, Alaska when they stumbled on a stark example of just how brutal nature can be – two dead moose, still locked in combat, frozen in ice.
The top stories from fake news sources attracted more engagement on Facebook than the top stories from legitimate news organisations.
Buried in a blog post about changes to its metrics, Facebook says that it miscalculated the view counts on some of its ad reporting systems.
Mark Zuckerberg has finally started publicly confronting Facebook’s fake news problem. The company holds all of the internal data that could support Zuckerberg’s claims, but is keeping it under wraps. It’s time for Facebook to stop playing games.
Just hours after Google announced the same thing. Crazy timing, right?
High-ranking officials were briefed on a planned News Feed update that would have identified fake or hoax news stories, but ended up disproportionately impacting right-wing news sites.
Surely the industry that prided itself of standing up against Donald Trump has some words of wisdom for all of us, right? Well... sort of.
Facebook has admitted that it trolls the black market for stolen passwords in an effort to beef up its own security and protect its users who may use the same password across multiple online accounts.
You know, because it's a tool that can easily be used for discrimination.
He dismissed the idea as crazy, and that the claims reveal a “profound lack of empathy” for Trump supporters.
Throughout this year’s presidential campaign, journalists have focused, correctly, on the power of Facebook to shape, distort, and ultimately control the news and information that inform and educate voters.
Mark Zuckerberg hasissued his first public statement on the results, adopting an optimistic tone in a post on the social network tagged “feeling hopeful.”
Barack Obama name-checked the social network while talking about the spread of lies during the US election season.
Still no clear explanation on what the data would be used for.
They may be partnering with ABC News, but they're still not a media company. Nope. No way. Not even a little bit.
