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Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos (cnbc.com)
Facebook said Thursday that it will start fact-checking images and videos. "People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day. We know that this kind of sharing is particularly compelling because it's visual. That said, it also creates an easy opportunity for manipulation by bad actors," Facebook said in a blog post. CNBC reports: Edited photos and strong visuals were common among the posts by Russian agents attempting to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other global elections, according to examples released by members of Congress. Facebook has been ramping up fact-checking efforts and third-party human reviewers in recent months in an effort to protect future elections from foreign interference. The company has already detected what it called "coordinated inauthentic behavior" ahead of the midterm elections in November.
"Many of our third-party fact-checking partners have expertise evaluating photos and videos and are trained in visual verification techniques, such as reverse image searching and analyzing image metadata, like when and where the photo or video was taken," Facebook said. "Fact-checkers are able to assess the truth or falsity of a photo or video by combining these skills with other journalistic practices, like using research from experts, academics or government agencies."
"Many of our third-party fact-checking partners have expertise evaluating photos and videos and are trained in visual verification techniques, such as reverse image searching and analyzing image metadata, like when and where the photo or video was taken," Facebook said. "Fact-checkers are able to assess the truth or falsity of a photo or video by combining these skills with other journalistic practices, like using research from experts, academics or government agencies."
BeauHD, I hope you're an unpaid volunteer.
Nobody wants to look at pictures of conservatives. If you've seen one picture of an armed obese man sporting a MAGA hat while eating a Big Mac you've seen them all.
Will satire survive?
Any unauthorized facts will be checked, and if found harmful to Democrats (and especially their midterm campaigns) will be promptly memory-holed.
More than three-quarters of all 18-34 yo FB users have removed FB from their cell phones.
Day late.
Dollar short.
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I suppose some lies are rather sophisticated, and it takes a concerted effort to dig through the facts to discover the truth. But a significant number of posts I see go by on Facebook are (what I think) obviously transparently wrong, but still shared and passed on as fact. Things like, "12:30 Aug 27th you will see two moons in the sky, but only one will be the moon. The other will be Mars. It won't happen again until 2287. No one alive today has ever witnessed this happening."
Said the photo checking robots in unison.
"Fact-checkers are able to assess the truth or falsity of a photo or video by combining these skills with other journalistic practices, like using research from experts, academics or government agencies."
We are so fucked...
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Most people I know(liberal/conservative) only post pictures of friends and families, pets, social events, vacations, or just personal shit. WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT of the Fact check. You saying I did not do a 40 mile bike ride, when I have posted my route, with pictures of where I stopped. Really? WTF
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
Big brother is checking for conformity. Its strange there are so many links between facebook and various important defense(attack) contractors were exposed before the whole thing even took of in terms of general usage. Has there been a coralling type strategy?
your penis size, or your income. /s
I guess BookFace wants to become Santa Claus
What about new verbs describing previously unknown processes? Will they be allowed? I facing-checking hope so.
If you believe foreign interference is the problem, then those doing the [more damaging] domestic interference already have you where they want you.
... I'm a photographer and the EXIF Data is stripped when I upload a photo.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
...and all the liberals said, yup, the conservatives are lying.
This is a technique as old as time. Or at least as old as snopes. Find a situation that makes a Democrat look bad. Search through all the most ludicrous claims against it. (optional: if no one is bonkers over it, feel free to create a bonkers post yourself!)
Now, ban it because it is used to spread a lie. Now shadow ban everyone who brings it up, because anyone bringing it up is probably propagating a lie (they aren't, but hey, who cares, your servers, your rules).
This is just another thing trying to desperately shield globalism from the light of truth.
So is FB going to fact check pictures and videos from MSM too?
Or just from posts FB doesn't like?
Any unauthorized facts will be checked
Is that the new name of alternative facts?
If you post factual information then people will be interested in knowing. If you posts a meme claiming some crazy conspiracy shit with absolute no factual backing then it's going to get taken down. Infowars isn't a news source.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Lies.
Can we stop with the russians already ! I realize most people have not been through the commie craze, the McCarthyism, the red scare but for Christ' sake can someone read some history! it was half a century ago.
This obsession with the enemy beyond our borders to keep us constantly on guard and to give up freedoms to surveillance by government and their actors (which let's be honest, FB, Google, telecom companies are) has to stop. I get it, you folks "lost" an election and didn't get the president you wanted. And of course it's not your fault and it's unfair and this is all due to a country thousands of miles away that could do with 100k investment what our incompetent political parties could not with millions of dollars and TV presence and constant rallies. Sure. I buy that.
These words no longer mean what they used to, they are akin to "woke" as depicting a meaningless left-only view of the world. Feel free to translate them.
- bad actors
- fact checking
- fake news
- foreign interference
- "the russians"
Since FB want to now be a censor, they are now responsible for EVERY piece of content. Enjoy the numerous lawsuits and criminal charges incoming, Zuck.
Fact check yourself Facebook.
should get your head examined bro, tds can be debilitating if not treated
It makes me feel so much better that a large corporation is going to determine truth vs falsehood of information.
Actually it would be OK if they had a purely technical measure of whether or not images or videos had been manipulated.
IIRC, 0.9 seconds was the time allowed for a Facebook "fact-checker" to determine if an image breached Facebook's strict nudity and lax hate-speech/domestic-violence policies. It is economically infeasible for Facebook to examine "millions of photos" and millions of frames of video with anything smarter than a feature-checking engine (AI) that fake-news creators will outsmart.
She lied about being a human being.
As Bannon works to convince the right to overreach the 1st Amendment FB will be sued into oblivion for not using alternate facts.
Wow, I absolutely can't see how this could go wrong in any way whatsoever.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooring!
I look forward to the day I stop seeing people share the picture that claims that if you punch your PIN in backwards at an ATM then it alerts the police to the fact that you're being coerced into taking out money.
Every single person who shares that picture clearly hasn't taken 5 seconds of brain time to consider what would happen if your PIN was, say, 1221.
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Fucking liberal mods have ruined this once pristine news site.
OK, as someone who normally despises conspiracy theories ... I give up.
The whole "oh noes Russia" things was a false flag operation, to give Facebook et al a blanket excuse to go hog wild with their bias. "What choice do we have?"
I didn't want to believe that ... I really didn't ...
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That would be great if they weren't checking things against facts they've invented themselves. I am in awe of people's inability to see through any of this.
I know this is far, far out there and all, but maybe it should be up to both the people posting the images or videos and/or the people viewing the images or videos to fact-check them. Or not.
FTFY
Facebook doesn't have the AI that is needed to "fact check". Their entire AI research lab is mediocre at best. Their so called "AI" couldn't even figure out that people were upset and voted Trump out of desperation. The same people that voted for Obama twice voted for twice. America's demographics didn't magically change in 4 years. Hilary was a shit candidate, and their "AI" didn't sense that. This is just a code word for our corporate overlords to censor content that jeopardizes their influence.
If Facebook is going after pics it thinks are posted by Russian hackers what about the ones posted by hackers from China, Vietnam, Israel, etc?
It was a nice way to slip in the Russian hacker thing. The DNC has been looking for Russian hackers since Hillary complained about them. One wonders why Hillary did this since she had a lot ob business dealings with Putin's Russia during here SOS stint so why would they want to hack her campaign?
One would think the Russian hackers would want Hillary and friends to win since the Clinton's were so close to Putin. Doing highly paid speaking engagement and helping contract through the system in the US.
Fact checking using what metrics? It's been well established that facebook is not politically neutral. I'm not sure I'd trust them to accurately make that assessment without introducing their own bias. Even if they're going through a third party they're still choosing the third party.
"Many of our third-party fact-checking partners have expertise evaluating photos and videos and are trained in visual verification techniques..."
I've seen a few 'shops in my time...
Of all our ancient, crusty old memes, that one is suddenly and very literally relevant. Who'd have guessed?