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Zuckerberg Shares Facebook's Plan to Bring Community Together, Edits Out a Questionable Sentence Minutes Later (mashable.com)
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring people closer together. He published a 6,000-word letter on his Facebook page Thursday to outline his vision for the kind of world he thinks Facebook can help create. The free-wielding note included few specifics, but offered a number of broad, ambitious goals for how the tech giant can contribute to a better understanding of everything from terrorism to fake news. Interestingly, minutes after the post was published, Zuckerberg edited out a sentence from the letter. Mashable adds: In the post, Zuckerberg briefly touches on how artificial intelligence can be used to detect terrorist propaganda. "Right now, we're starting to explore ways to use AI to tell the difference between news stories about terrorism and actual terrorist propaganda so we can quickly remove anyone trying to use our services to recruit for a terrorist organization," he wrote in the post published Thursday. That sounds like a straightforward enough application of AI -- one that's in line with what Zuckerberg and other executives have discussed in the past -- but it's different from what the CEO had originally written. In an earlier version of the missive, which was shared with a number of news outlets in advance of its publication on Facebook, Zuckerberg took the idea farther. The "long-term promise of AI," he wrote, is that it can be used used to "identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all, including terrorists planning attacks using private channels." Here's an expanded version of the quote from the Associated Press (emphasis ours). "The long term promise of AI is that in addition to identifying risks more quickly and accurately than would have already happened, it may also identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all "including terrorists planning attacks using private channels, people bullying someone too afraid to report it themselves, and other issues both local and global. It will take many years to develop these systems." That's different from what was described in the final version that was shared Thursday, which made no mention of private communication in relation to AI and terrorism.
Anybody that uses Facebook as a news source is a complete idiot.
Actually its ABC's fault.
Back when Clinton was president, the story about Monica was given to ABC 3 times over a 8 month period. They buried it every time they got it. There is no telling how many stories the "big 3" buried.
Matt Drudge made a website and put the story up, he thought it was interesting. Here we are 20 years later and Drudge is still around. That is THE first time I know of a story buried by the "big 3" got national attention. They have been mad since then that they can't bury stories they don't want let out. They have been fighting it for years and keep losing more. Just when they thought they had finally regained control during Obama's term (remember how bad they tried to make Fox News look) Trump comes along and completely destroys all their progress.
They know they have lost fighting "fair". Now it is no holds barred, we don't care if we have to lie to get back control. But they can't even start as long as Trump is around calling them out like he is. Their problem is they HAVE to lie to get people to hate Trump, but when he points out they lie about him he wins even more. Its a death spiral where either MSM will win or Trump will win, and so far Trump is coming out way ahead.
So its basically all Drudge's fault.
which is taking advantage of the immigrant crisis here in Europe to stir up xenophobia
I have a question; are the nationwide riots in France — perpetrated primarly by immigrants — Russian propaganda?