In 2019, we still don’t really know what to do about fake news. With nothing to disincentivize viral hyperpartisan headlines and other exercises in confirmation bias, online misinformation seems to run as rampant as ever. It’s a tricky problem, particularly because it’s one that requires the readers most drawn to too outrageous to be true […]
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Facebook may proactively close Pages and Groups before they’re in violation of policy
Facebook today announced changes to the way it handles the removal of content from Facebook Pages that’s in violation of the social network’s Community Standards, as well as when the Page has posted items that are rated false by a third-party fact checking service. It says it will also make it harder for those whose […]
View More Facebook may proactively close Pages and Groups before they’re in violation of policyMicrosoft Edge mobile browser will warn users about fake news
How do you spot a fake?
When users of Microsoft’s Edge mobile browser visit a news website with a dubious reputation, they’ll now get a warning to proceed with caution.
As spotted by The Guardian, Microsoft has partnered with the news watchdog …
Facebook cracks down on Russian-based “fake news”
Facebook says it has removed over 500 pages, groups and accounts from its site due to the accounts working in a “coordinated inauthentic effort to spread misinformation.” Read more…More about Facebook, Russia, Mashable Video, Fake News, and Tech
View More Facebook cracks down on Russian-based “fake news”Facebook removes hundreds of fake Russian pages operating in Europe and Asia
The Russian trolls have been busy.
Facebook said in a blog post published Thursday that it has removed over 500 Facebook accounts, pages, and Instagram profiles linked to Russia for “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” That means misrepresenting the t…
Facebook tackles fake news in the UK with a new fact-checking service
Facebook is partnering up with Full Fact, a British charitable organization that focuses on fact-checking, to get rid of fake news in the UK, the company announced Friday.
This is a continuation of Facebook’s efforts to combat fake news, which the co…
Not shocking study says senior citizens share more fake news
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The only people left on Facebook are the people who are worst at using it.
A new study from Princeton and New York University delves into how much people share fake news online, and who’s doing the sharing. It largely confirms what some previous studies have indicated, and what you might have already suspected: the people who share the most fake news are your grandparents.
More specifically, the largest determinant to sharing a fake news article was being over the age of 65 — regardless of political orientation. Read more…
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View More Not shocking study says senior citizens share more fake newsMark Zuckerberg is “proud” of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year note posted on his Facebook page for everyone to see. Acknowledging that the social network played its part in the spread of hate speech, election interference, and misinformation, Zuckerberg’s […]
View More Mark Zuckerberg is “proud” of how Facebook handled its scandals this yearLinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman accidentally funded fake news
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A Silicon Valley billionaire who co-founded LinkedIn is apologizing for accidentally funding a recently uncovered fake news operation.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman issued a statement on Wednesday addressing a New York Times story that uncovered a “secret experiment” that utilized fake news in the Alabama Senate race that pit Democrat Doug Jones against Republican Roy Moore in December 2017.
The Times report claims that Democratic tech operatives engaged in Russian manipulation tactics, funded by Hoffman, in an effort to help Jones defeat Moore in last year’s special election.
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What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg
Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history. Or else didn’t study his preferred slice of classical antiquity carefully enough, faced, as he now is, with an existential crisis of ‘fake news’ simultaneously undermining trust in his own empire and in democracy itself. A recent New Yorker profile — questioning whether the Facebook founder can fix […]
View More What history could tell Mark ZuckerbergFacebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
Facebook isn’t responsible for government decisions to clamp down on free expression. But the question remains: How can companies stop assisting authoritarian governments, inadvertently or otherwise?
View More Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianismFacebook and Twitter remove accounts spreading fake news ahead of Bangladesh’s elections
Twitter and Facebook announced this morning they’ve removed a combined total of 30 accounts that were working to spread misinformation in Bangladesh, ten days before the country’s general elections. According to Facebook, the company removed nine Facebook Pages and six Facebook accounts that were engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Twitter said it removed 15 accounts that […]
View More Facebook and Twitter remove accounts spreading fake news ahead of Bangladesh’s elections