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Clamping down on viral fake news, Facebook partners with sites like Snopes and adds new user reporting
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Users will be able to mark stories as fake...algorithm will look at whether a large number of people are reporting a particular article, whether or not the article is going viral, and whether the article has a high rate of shares... create an algorithm-vetted set of links that then goes on to a team of researchers within Facebook... links are sent into a dashboard that the four fact-checking organizations have access to... if the stories are false, they add a link that debunks the story.... they can’t simply mark a story as fake with no source... result in stories being marked with red warnings showing that they’ve been disputed... it can’t be made into an ad and promoted...
Disputed stories will appear lower in the feed... "if reading an article makes people significantly less likely to share it, that may be a sign that a story has misled people... doing several things to reduce the financial incentives...
reporting happens on a per-post level, rather than on the publisher level... ... people who want to coordinate to mess with the system will be able to do so fairly easily
Disputed stories will appear lower in the feed... "if reading an article makes people significantly less likely to share it, that may be a sign that a story has misled people... doing several things to reduce the financial incentives...
reporting happens on a per-post level, rather than on the publisher level... ... people who want to coordinate to mess with the system will be able to do so fairly easily
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The above notes were curated from the full post www.niemanlab.org/2016/12/clamping-down-on-viral-fake-news-facebook-partners-with-sites-like-snopes-and-adds-new-user-reporting/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=d202ffee08-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-d202ffee08-395968141.Related reading
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