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Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos (reuters.com)
Facebook said today that it had begun "fact-checking" photos and videos to reduce the hoaxes and false news stories that have plagued the world's largest social media network. Reuters reports: The fact-checking began on Wednesday in France with assistance from the news organization AFP and will soon expand to more countries and partners, Tessa Lyons, a product manager at Facebook, said in a briefing with reporters. Lyons did not say what criteria Facebook or AFP would use to evaluate photos and videos, or how much a photo could be edited or doctored before it is ruled fake. The project is part of "efforts to fight false news around elections," she said. Facebook has tried other ways to stem the spread of fake news. It has used third-party fact-checkers to identify them, and then given such stories less prominence in the Facebook News Feed when people share links to them.
The truth has a well-known liberal bias, you know.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
So, that means Conservative news will be eliminated & Liberal lies will be emphasized. Got it!
Conservatism, (n.)
The psychosis arising from one of two main causes, one of which is ignorance, arising for example from the mistaken belief that things were better in some imagined, idealized, sanitized past, or the belief that the actual past was better, and needs to be preserved, arrived at through cleaving to a highly-selective version of the past, viewed through a prism of a narrow subset of people who experienced it, (disregarding the point of view and realities of life of everyone else,) where the person suffering from conservatism believes him or her self to be in some way similar to or related to those who fared better in the past, and relegating anyone else to be classified as the "other," and therefore discounted as unimportant or even sub-human, non-human, or worse--they are treated as an enemy by their very nature. The other main cause of conservatism is cowardice, the understanding that the past was bad, the present sucks too, but that on balance, ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER will more likely make things worse, rather than better. Some might term that merely as "pessimism," but I disagree. It's cowardice. Pessimism is a bias that skews interpretation towards the negative, of any situation, but it takes outright COWARDICE to fear so badly that any change will be for the worse that they not only make no effort to effect change in the world, they fight vigorously against it.
As best as I can tell, from having known a LOT of people suffering from the mental disease of conservatism, they generally fall into one of those two categories, though many fall into both... they're afraid, AND lack imagination. Don't be mad at them, that they're stupid and a bunch of quivering cowards. Pity them. They can't help but shit their pants at the very thought of things changing. Give them diapers and change the world, because it's fucked up right now, getting worse, and NEEDS change desperately.