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Facebook's 'Journalism Project' Seeks To Strengthen Online News (cnet.com)
Facebook is taking more responsibility over its role in the media industry. CNET reports on the company's announcement: The social network on Wednesday announced a new initiative called the Journalism Project, which seeks to put Facebook on steadier footing with the news industry. As part of the effort, the social network will work to help train journalists on how to use Facebook as a reporting tool and assist the public in figuring out how to sniff out misinformation. "We know that our community values sharing and discussing ideas and news," Fidji Simo, director of product for the project, wrote in a blog post. "And as a part of our service, we care a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive." The initiative is part of an about-face for Facebook, which for a long time shrugged off its influence on the news and downplayed the impact of misinformation circulated on Facebook on the 2016 presidential election. The company is now acknowledging the significant role it plays in the consumption of news online, along with its ability to shape journalism's future.
I mean this literally... other than news salespeople, who cares? Every decade or two, when it's time to get new news, I go to the news store, and I buy something that they have in stock, within my budget. I couldn't care if it was fact-checked, not fact-checked, or FairyDust powered. News is news is news.
That's what you'll get. Conservative news will be silenced.
that post positive things about Trump, we know which side they're one. They are not on our side.
Same could be said about Twitter for not censoring Trump. They hate us and are against us.
So Fake News is the culprit for influencing the election? Fake news has *always* influenced the election. Anywho, I know of at least one person who offered their opinion on Facebook (that doesn't necessarily follow social views) and linked to articles supporting their opinion. Their account has been banned from posting for 60 days. Based on this, It's not necessarily fake news the puppet masters are after. It's censorship. America. Land of the Censored, Home of the Unaware.
This would benefit both FB and an organization like Snopes. When a story or link is shared, if the text checks out by some fact-checking source that is reputable, the story would get some type of icon showing that it is not pure garbage. If it is text, then it would be cryptographically signed somehow, so changing something in the story would make the icon disappear.
Let me see if I understand this... The people who bring you your misinformation on a silver platter, want to show YOU (their target sucker), how to "Sniff Out" misinformation. I think all I can smell, is bullshit from that direction. :-D
Facebook's problem isn't only with misinformation. Their filters are likely responsible for the increased partisanship in America and around the world.
I personally feel fixing the filters would do a great deal to stop the spread of fake news.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
that they care that only the right kind of propaganda reaches the audience, and that inconvenient truths etc. are labeled as "misinformation".
It needs to fuck off and leave this world alone.
^subject.
By that rationale the Chinese "Great Firewall" is also China taking responsibility into what content their people can consume or not consume. If anyone thinks Facebook filters will be objective and accurate, they should pay more attention to history classes.
(Now then again I don't understand why people get their news from Facebook at all, but that's a different topic)
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There isn't a conservative out there disagreeing with you. But well, gee.....mainstream news is so actively liberal that they'll give their presidential candidate the debate questions.
...it's not what (most? many?) people want. They want their prefabricated beliefs to be bolstered by the "news" they consume and are very much not interested in "real news", aka facts. Just wade through the other comments here claiming FB will now just filter out everything from one end of the political spectrum in favor of the other. Those people will likely use the "fact checked" indicator as a marker of stories to avoid, since they are obviously going to be slanted and "fake".
I have also noticed an interesting trend recently. A number of political articles on Snopes and fact check sites, where the conservative viewpoint or statement was in fact CORRECT. And they even discuss the evidence of such. But interestingly enough, in several of these cases the fact check articles NEVER post a conclusion. They don't include their "True or False" meters, etc.
And I have wondered, why is it that these articles where either the criticism of a conservative is debunked or the criticism of a Democrat confirmed, are not given truth-meters?
Hmmm...
Because, these sites are extremely biased. Even when their articles are correct, they regularly pick and choose what issues to pursue. And numerous substantiated criticisms of Democrats will never ever get an article on these fact check sites.
Facebook is going through an awful lot of trouble to justify its firing of human news editors. Why not just go back to what worked?
I find YouTube to be the best fact checker.
The media claimed that Trump mocked a disabled reporter, or more to the point, that Trump mocked a reporter for his disability. Trump did in fact mock a reporter who is disabled. However, there are videos on youtube that will show you that those body movements of his are used regularly, not for mocking disabilities but to personify his view of someone who doesn't have an answer.
Most of the mainstream media also claimed that Donald Trump said soldiers that commit suicide are weak. He said no such thing. Go to youtube and watch the actual speech. He was discussing the lack of care available for our veterans, particularly the lack of mental healthcare. He was discussing triggers, and our soldiers being left without the support they deserved. Every soldier and veteran I know who watched that video loved it. In fact, it was the first, and almost the only time I watched Donald Trump and thought to myself that he looked presidential.
Watch MSNBC, they'll show you protestors at a Tea Party rally outside one of President Obama's townhall meetings. They'll show you a man carrying an AR-15 on his back. They'll state how this is intimidating and seemingly rather racist. Go to youtube and you'll find the another video of that same rally. Except this video will clearly show the man in question with an AR-15 strapped to his back is in fact a black American.
So ya.....trust me, conservatives are very aware of how fake most of the mainstream news is. Liberals on the other hand are stuck thinking the only fake news is Fox/Faux News. Well, it is fairly fake. But it doesn't have the market nor is it even close to being top dog.
I'll start to believe this hoo-ha about "fake news" being a SERIOUS effort to raise the standards of journalism when I see one reputable mainstream outlet reporting that 'hands up don't shoot' in Ferguson was ALSO 'fake news'.
Until then, it's just "my party lost" biased after-election whinging.
-Styopa
1: Weaken the integrity of the field of journalism by up-feeding fake news. 2: Promise to strengthen the integrity of journalism for money. 3: Profit.
Now our fake news is called ads that pay to post it
Hmm, why does this remind me of a quote?
That pee-Trump document is definitely from the Intelligence agency (see Trumps tweet accusing them of leaking it, so he's clearly seen it before).
Are you suggesting the Intelligence agency is complaining it lost the election? Lots of the memos are before the election!
Cohen for example, it says his wife is Russian descent, and her father a Moscow property developer, and he met with Kremlin figures in Prague in August to deal with the Manafort revelation.
And if the memo is from the intelligence agencies, then they have the flight record for Cohen during that week that story broke (12-18th August), so that would be the first thing they'd check. They'd have the record for his wife, and her father's family details. It would be in the marriage details.
Exactly. We need to limit access to what Trumps says in order to protect freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA
And you claim the hand thing and Trump saying "you should see this guy" doesn't refer to this guys actual physical hand? Bizarre!
or is it?
Nobody knows for sure!
Look, Trump's tweet accuses the intelligence agencies of leaking this document (which he calls fake news).
So you can confirm its source right from Trump himself.
This document:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
Trump confirming its source in his "nazi" quote as Intelligence agencies:
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
And you can confirm Cohen's Twitter silence in the period from when New York times asked for comment until the week later when he popped up on Fox on the 18th to deny deny deny, dispute dispute dispute. When the strategy clearly had been already set.
Look at his media, you'd expect him to blitz twitter as the Manasfort story is breaking:
https://twitter.com/MichaelCohen212
So you want to dismiss the unpleasant links, but that's just denialism. Better to go check the details.
Is the "Rossotrudnichestvo" the Russian Cultural Office in Prague a FSB front office? Well go look at Google street view, it's in district 6, it has large satellite comms dishes on thr roof and its a deep deep building for promoting "culture" in such a small country! So yeh, its suspicious as fuck.
Fixed it.
You are confusing "information" with "bullshit". Please don't.
Or was that supposed to indicate that you're fine with WaPo making up stuff about Trump to make him look even worse than he is, as long as you get to add yet more bullshit made up fake news?
Go to youtube and you will find Donald Trump using similar behaviors of others, usually whenever they don't have an answer. I still think mocking like that was immature.
Did Donald Trump mock a reporter? Yes
Did Donald Trump mock a reporter who had a handicap? Yes
Did Donald Trump mock the handicap of a reporter? No
But funny, how liberals forget when Obama mentioned his low bowling score in an interview, and proceeded to state that he bowled like someone in the Special Olympics.
Gee, guess criticism doesn't apply if you have a [D]
But funny, how liberals forget when Obama mentioned his low bowling score in an interview, and proceeded to state that he bowled like someone in the Special Olympics.
Gee, guess criticism doesn't apply if you have a [D]
Because it's not as if anyone can label anything they don't like BS, right?
If you want to play the Popper card and say we have to be intolerant of intolerance, then just remember that this was justified in terms of self-defense against those who would use "fists or pistols" instead of rational argument. So Popper is more properly invoked against the jihadist types who actually encourage others to murder people in truck attacks and such and those who defend them.