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Facebook Changes Feed To Promote Posts That Aren't Fake, Sensational, Or Spam (techcrunch.com)
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is prioritizing "authentic" content in News Feed with a ranking algorithm change that detects and promotes content "that people consider genuine, and not misleading, sensational, or spammy." The algorithm will also boost stories that are going viral in real-time. From the report: To build the update, Facebook categorized Pages that frequently share inauthentic posts like fake news and clickbaity headlines, or get their posts hidden often. It then used these posts to train an algorithm that detects similar content as its shared in the News Feed. Facebook will now give extra feed visibility to posts that don't show signs of similarity to inauthentic content. Meanwhile, Facebook wants to more quickly surface big stories going viral either because the topic is being posted about by lots of people, or a Page post about the topic is seeing tons of engagement. Facebook will then take that as a signal that you might temporarily care more about the topic, and therefore show it in your News Feed while it's still hot. Facebook says it doesn't anticipate significant changes to most Pages' News Feed distribution, but some might see a small increase or decrease in referral traffic or outbound clicks depending on if they share authentic, timely content vs inauthentic and outdated stories.
Are probably not really that interested in whether the 'news' is real or not.
So it
promotes content "that people consider genuine
Isn't the real problem that people consider anything that matches their confirmation bias to be genuine?
How do they decide "what isn't fake"?
"ranking algorithm [...] that detects [...] 'that people consider genuine [...]'"
Ah, OK. Mob expertise. But that's a game Slashdot & Reddit have learnt to play *much* better.
Somehow they want the advantages of traditional media (control, reputation, gated communities, branding) without paying the price (a small army of professionals). Typical parasitic behavior. I sincerely hope they shrivel up and die, victims of some self-defense mechanism society at large invents. I truly hope... for the benefit of society at large.
I give this at most a week before something obviously fake gets promoted or the spammers figure out how to get around the algorithm and Facebook has to apologize again and looks completely inept.
It's not that hard;
No publication date -1,
No Author -2,
No links to supporting articles -2,
verbatim copying of other site without quote, or a blockquote -2,
tries to get your Email address -3,
tries to get you to like page with a popup -3,
tries to get you to like page with a popunder -4,
dingus.tv or dear hughesnet subscriber popunder -5,
autoplay video -6,
any adds about herbal viagra, why a celeb doesn't talk about an offspring, or pictures being banned or embarassing -5,
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
You know, there's a simpler explanation. Maybe fact-checking is a more "left-leaning and liberal" preoccupation. The same way fake news appears to be favored by the alt-right.
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
Facts are not "balanced", nor should you expect them to be. The molar mass of nitrogen is 14.0067 g/mol. I don't need to consult someone from the "other side" to tell me that nitrogen doesn't really exist, it's only a liberal conspiracy, or to give me the molar mass in units of fetal souls.
Fact-checking sources provide citations I can check. Remember what happened when "Conservapedia" came out? It was going to be a "conservative" alternative to Wikipedia. They beshat themselves so badly that the only people who visited that site were those seeking to ridicule it. Remember the president's spokesperson giving us "alternative facts"?
Remember which power structure is ascendant during this Age of Alt-Facts. Do you believe it is coincidental that it coincides with an effort to make people believe that nothing is true, no information can be trusted?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Only idiots read anything facebook. Fake holy hillary stories obviously weren't fake enough.
Ads upon ads, the reason I gave up stupid facebook centuries ago.
Newsflash matey. We are fucking drowning in idiots. What they think matters, sorry to say.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
I can point out similar instances with the other sources. I'm not totally against using these sources but I want a balance from the other sources on the other side of the political aisle.
Here's the interesting thing AFAIAC. People want, people want.
Don't want - do!
If you want conservative fact checking and conservative media and conservative teachers in schools - become one. Have so many conservative fact checkers that the liberal ones are just reduced to the noise background, so that their lies are laughable among the truth that the conservatives hand out.
Because if we allow liberals to run these things, we'll just turn out more liberals that listen to more liberal lies.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Jesus - I just paid a visit to CNN, and their front page "news" article about Trump nominating a Supreme Court justice was full of shit like this:
"It was a sweet moment of vindication for the Republican Party -- especially its social conservative and evangelical wings who had defied expectations that they would desert Trump over his three marriages and often vulgar tone.
Whatever he said, and whatever he did, conservatives clung on to the tiger's tail, convinced Trump would deliver them a Supreme Court pick they could get behind. Looking on were Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, savoring their reward."
"But the President is also known to place great value in someone's appearance and might have concluded that Gorsuch, tall, fit with a square jaw and immaculately cropped gray hair looks the part of a Supreme Court Justice."
That's why I consider CNN to be as fake news-y as anyone else. I want to read fucking NEWS. I don't want interpretations of what the people might have been thinking, or derogatory assumptions, or portrayals of any sort. I just want news.
But.... All the media was against Trump. Where could you find FAKE news benefiting him if there were NONE telling anything good about him?
It doesn't make any sense.
Trump won, despite all Media trying to make him lose. Do yo mean that only news from cnn, fox, etc. are the real ones and everything else is fake?
Wake up and don't pretend people are stupid.
most news consumed by Trump voters were by way of facebook. Tomi Lahren posts garnered more views per episode than Bill O'Reilly. That's the tip of the iceberg though. Fake sensentional articles written by pro Russian sponsored trolls were shared at an ungodly rate. Think I'm wrong, ask a Trump voter if their timelines are now devoid of Hillary killed X person posts or Obama secret something posts. Same as how they were bombarded with these fake articles, progressive peoples timelines now look like an anti Trump site. You're right that traditional news sources were all against Trump. Traditional news sources are subject to higher standards, verifications and/or editing. Those same sources aren't going to turn pro Trump because hes president now. The shitshow we have been seeing for the past 12 days is what they wrote about all along and will continue to do so.
What they think matters
Only to them. But since it is easier to scream "Trump is banning immigrants!!!!!" than it is to say "Trump has suspended travel for 120 days from seven countries" all we get are the idiot posts because that is what people parrot.
Keep in mind, Obama banned immigrants just last month, and nobody cared.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Most news consumed by Obama voters was from the Daily Show. News masked as .... "Comedy". When caught in a lie, it was "comedic license" but the idiots believed it anyway.
Excellent slight of hand there.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You make my case for me. I would suggest to you, that the ban from Cuba was essentially worse, because it wasn't telegraphed at all and was completely out of the blue. You cannot say the same thing about Trump, who telegraphed it from the primaries through the general election.
I do know the details, but my outlook values certain details over others. Of course, I am a racist nazi for thinking the brown/black skin people of Cuba deserve to be refugees more than the brown skin people of states that foster radical Islamic terrorists, all other things being equal. The fact that we actually CAN vet the brown / black skinned people from Cuba almost universally means we know who they are when they get here.
The sad thing is, I will be called a racist for pointing out that it has nothing to do with skin color.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
The Daily Show *is* comedy, it's not news. As a viewer, I can quite easily separate the two. Jokes are made regularly against both parties, that's part of the skit. Jabs really hit home when there's an element of truth behind them.You'll see republicans (and Trump most recently) as the target of most skits because the targets are well known (people know them and have even formulated opinions) and many are full of material--some are walking jokes, lets face it.
This comedic polarization is due to the current cast of characters (our politicians and current news events). The show slammed Anthony Weiner in more recent history because he's a joke too. They've also slammed Hilary with respect to her private email server. Joe Biden had his fair share of jabsl for some of the crazy/ridiculous stuff he said. Nancy Pelosi and fellow dems were slammed at their joke of a protest attempt at the Supreme Court last night.
Obama didn't get slammed nearly as much because, quite frankly, there wasn't a lot of material. He was a fairly boring guy (which isn't a bad thing). They jabbed at his public speaking pauses, failures at Guantanamo, etc. but mocking someone with a lot of character for comedic pull isn't easy. You're lacking a lot of that basis of truth to work from.
If you don't like being the brunt of satire, don't give the comedians material to work with.