Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact-checkers to combat and bury 'fake news'

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Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact-checkers to combat and bury 'fake news'

by Alex Heath at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-will-fact-check-label-fake-news-in-news-feed-2016-12

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Facebook is going to start fact-checking, labeling, and burying fake news and hoaxes in its News Feed, the company said Thursday.

The decision comes after Facebook received heated criticism for its role in spreading a deluge of political misinformation during the US presidential election, like one story that falsely said the Pope had endorsed Donald Trump.

To combat fake news, Facebook has teamed up with a shortlist of media organizations, including Snopes and ABC News, that are part of an international fact-checking network led by Poynter, a nonprofit school for journalism in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Starting as a test with a small percentage of its users in the US, Facebook will make it easier to report news stories that are fake or misleading. Once third-party fact-checkers have confirmed that the story is fake, it will be labeled as such and demoted in the News Feed.


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[Initech]

1. Can we get rid of Taboola and Outbrain while we're at it?

And all of the other click bait ad garbage that's plaguing the internet? That's a huge contribution to the problem!

[Hoyt]

2. The white wingers have convinced themselves Snopes is owned by George Soros and

is biased. They just don't like facts.

[0rganism]

3. the only people they'd accept as neutral brokers are the assholes who write fake news

fuck them, they're hopeless
the fact checking is for the rest of us who aren't used to news completely rooted in and servicing confirmation bias

[Initech]

4. They think George Soros owns everything left wing.

It's embarrassing!

[Hoyt]

8. They really do. Cracks me up.

[MineralMan]

5. It's going to be partly up to us, too.

If you can report fake news on FB, do so, after checking the source and seeing if the story is reported by legitimate news outlets.

FB is going to be reactive, rather than proactive on these things, so the more people who report such stories, the better.

[deaniac21]

6. Like you can't figure it out

by yourself.

[KittyWampus]

7. I've already seen some idiots on Facebook diss'ing Snopes.