Facebook Removed References To Russia From Fake-News Report (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in April, Facebook published a report called "Information Operations and Facebook" that detailed the company's efforts to combat fake news and other misinformation campaigns on the site. The report was released in the midst of an uproar over potential Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign. But the report doesn't mention Russia by name, saying only that Facebook's data "does not contradict" a January report by the Obama administration detailing Russian meddling in the election. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the decision not to mention Russia was hotly debated inside Facebook. An earlier draft of the report discussed what Facebook knew at that time about Russian meddling, but that material was ultimately removed from the report before publication. "Some at Facebook pushed to not include a mention of Russia in the report because the company's understanding of Russian activity was too speculative, according to one of the people," according to the Journal.

Comments

If you get most of your news from Facebook

[Snotnose]

You are the problem. You are not part of the problem, your demographic is the problem.

If you get most of your news from Facebook you need to shut the fuck up, because you are the uninformed idiot the rest of us laugh at.

Re:If you get most of your news from Facebook

[Zontar The Mindless]

I've seriously started to wonder whether the Chinese don't have the right idea--keep social media on a tight leash, or just ban it outright.

Re:If you get most of your news from Facebook

[drinkypoo]

If you get most of your news from Facebook you need to shut the fuck up, because you are the uninformed idiot the rest of us laugh at.

I get most of my news from Slashdot, you insensitive clod!

Re:If you get most of your news from Facebook

[drinkypoo]

I have many Russian colleagues who are smart, well-educated, and speak nearly perfect English.

But enough about your job at the spy bureau, comrade.

sorry, couldn't help myself

[PopeRatzo]

In Soviet Russia, references remove you.

Re:Strange that FakeBook wouldn't buy the lie

[Zontar The Mindless]

Ask Bernie what happens if the "Democratic" party doesn't want you to win the primary.

Bernie wasn't a Democrat until it proved politically expedient for him to identify as one.

Not unlike how The Donald was not a Republican until... well, I think you can fill in the rest.

At least someone at facebook is rationnal

[RedK]

because the company's understanding of Russian activity was too speculative

Good on them to value fact based reporting! Those people should be congratulated and promoted.

We need less narrative pushing and more fact based analysis. The whole "Russia!" scare the MSM and Democrats are pushing is really embarassing at this point and is only serving to distract officials from conducting actual government and intelligence work, while they continue on this wild goose chase, or witch hunt, or whatever you want to call it.