Get Audio+
Scan to download the app

Stories

Facebook labeled 180 million posts as ‘false’ since March. Election misinformation spread anyway.

today20 November 2020

Background


The numbers Facebook is and is not willing to share say a lot about its ability to stop election misinformation.

On a call with press Thursday, Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of Integrity, said that since March the company put “warning labels” on 180 million pieces of content — meaning a third-party fact-checker reviewed and debunked them.

Facebook subsequently put a gray box over that content when people shared it, with a “false” warning label and a link to the debunk.

That’s a big…

Click here to read the full article.

Source:

Written by: <bound method CoreModelAPIMixin.get_author of <Content: Facebook labeled 180 million posts as 'false' since March. Election misinformation spread anyway. (News Tech)>>


Previous post

Stories

Trump adds fuel to infamous QAnon promoter’s debunked election fraud conspiracy

Those following President Trump on Twitter have likely heard about the Dominion voter fraud disinformation campaign by now. If you haven’t, strap in for an explanation. The conspiracy was just dialed up to 11 now that QAnon is officially connected. Early this morning, Trump tweeted out a video segment from One America News Network that claims to uncover "vulnerabilities" in Dominion Voting Systems election technology. Twitter slapped Trump's tweet with […]

today20 November 2020

Post comments (0)

Leave a reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *