Fascism: Facebook to Stop ‘Fake News’ Same Way as ‘Click-Bait’ via Algorithm

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Facebook to Stop ‘Fake News’ Same Way as ‘Click-Bait’ via Algorithm

By Charlie Nash, Breitbart, April 14, 2017:

Facebook will stop “fake news” using a similar algorithm as the platform’s one against “click-bait,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

“In Zuckerberg’s view, according to Fast Company, tackling click bait required a rejiggering of the site’s algorithms, as assisted by users’ input,” reports Fortune. “The solution is similar to the approach the site is now taking to improve the situation around ‘information diversity or misinformation or building common ground’—euphemisms for the more popular conceptions of ‘filter bubbles,’ ‘fake news,’ and ‘echo chambers.’”

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“Now it’s not gone a hundred percent but it’s a much smaller problem than it used to be,” said Zuckerberg on the issue of click-bait. “It’s not like they are problems that exist because there’s some kind of underlying, nefarious motivation.”

“There are very different cultural norms ranging from country to country,” he continued. “In some places, the idea that showing a woman’s breasts would be controversial feels backwards. But there are other places where images that are at all sexually suggestive, even if they don’t show nudity, just because of a pose, that’s over the line.”

Zuckerberg went on to claim that balancing free speech “is a tricky part of running this company,” adding, “In setting the nudity policy, for example, we are not trying to impose our values on folks, we’re trying to reflect what the community thinks.”

“We have come to this realization that a bunch of people sitting in a room in California is not going to be the best way to reflect all the local values that people have around the world,” the Facebook CEO declared. “So we need to evolve the systems for collective decision making. It’s an interesting problem… It’s just a constant work in progress.”

Last month, The Daily Mail reported that Facebook, which has become notorious for banning conservative and anti-SJW users, as well as harmless comedy pages, has started to roll out anti-“fake news” features, which are run by partisan fact-checking services led by The Poynter Institute.

“Users have reported seeing a pop-up window when they attempted to share articles that were deemed inaccurate by third-party fact-checkers,” reported The Daily Mail. “Facebook itself will not decide what is real and what is considered fake. Instead, it is enlisting The Poynter Institute, a Florida journalism school, to sift through content. The Poynter Institute is the host of the International Fact Checking Network which bills itself as a ‘global alliance of fact checkers’. Its members include ABC News, Politico, The Associated Press, Snopes.com and The Washington Post.”

Facebook has also started placing “how to spot false news” pop-ups on user timelines.

The term “fake news” has often been used to smear independent conservative news sources, such as Breitbart News, despite the fact that several news outlets have been exposed by Breitbart for publishing their own “fake news,” including the Independent, the Daily Beast, CNN (numerous times), the Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Though Facebook and The Poynter Institute deem Snopes as an allegedly “neutral” fact-checking service, many of Snopes’ fact-checkers were discovered by conservative media to be openly left-wing and self-described “progressives.”

As previously reported, “Snopes fact-checker Arturo R. Garcia openly labels himself as a ‘progressive,’ attempted to compare Trump supporters to racists on Twitter, misattributed a quote about him to Breitbart News, and acts as the editor of ‘Racialicious’ – ‘A blog about the intersection of race and culture’.”

Fellow Snopes fact-checker Bethania Palmer attempted to link Trump to the KKK, defended a racist professor, wrote numerous left-wing articles for Raw Story — including two attempting to associate former Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon to domestic violence and white supremacy — and acts as a contributor for the “progressive” non-profit Truthout.

David Emery, another fact-checker and staff writer at Snopes, openly asked on Twitter whether there were “any un-angry Trump supporters.”

Despite their clear political biases, all three were tasked with fact-checking political candidates over the 2016 presidential election under the guise of a neutral service.

In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook, who financially supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, called on tech companies to filter out “fake news,” while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also penned a plan to tackle “fake news” last month, highlighting his intention to roll out the fact-checking feature.

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Craig
Craig
6 years ago

So, the left weenies won’t allow speech they don’t like. Does a subscription to facebook also come with diapers and a pacifier?
The fascist left strikes again.

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Ann Inquirer ✓ᴺᵃᵗᶦᵒᶰᵃˡᶦˢᵗ
6 years ago
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Ed Heavner
Ed Heavner
6 years ago

I find it humorous that Buzz Feed is classified as fake news by many on the left yet Mad Cow Maddow used it exclusively as if it was the Holy Grail and the left buys it lock stock and barrel. It’s hard to break a straw but the left certainly knows how to bend and twist one any way they want to achieve their agenda. Hence the left grasping at straws is applicable now a days. This twisting and bending of facts to fit the narrative is not relative to the US alone. The leftists in Great Britain are now claiming Russian interference/hacking in the Brexit vote. As I have said many times, the election of Pres. Trump did not create the hate on the Left. Electing Pres. Trump exposed the hate of the Left.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Heavner

No wonder their brains are knotted.

JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
6 years ago
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santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

……..“In setting the nudity policy, for example, we are not trying to impose
our values on folks, we’re trying to reflect what the community thinks.” Really.

That’s code for we’re trying to impose our values on people and to tell the community how to think.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

In other words, whichever group generates the most complaints, gets to censor the news.

notearsinheaven
notearsinheaven
6 years ago

they pay ppl to complain (facebook). They also pay ppl to praise the Dems. Pay them to attack R wingers. All kinds of fun stuff.

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

As has been pointed out before, the “progressives” war on news they don’t like is a direct attack upon the corner stone of what remains of our civilisation which is the open- to -all market place of ideas.

Because the net and social media are global, so is the threat wherever you live, in the UK three days ago a report in the Express spoke of concerns about “fake news” from teachers unions in the UK being repeated by children on social media, this set the alarms ringing with the left wing teachers because kids in the UK were reading the truth on the web rather than the lies they were routinely being taught in class to further the “progressive” all cultures are equal agenda. I had a hand in seeing that was so.

Truth behaves like tooth paste when squeezed, it appears out the other end of the tube, print off the truth about what’s going on and how it’s affecting peoples lives, if the issue is taxi rapes by Muslim drivers, print it and hand to those most at risk, if the issue is the sexual safety of young white girls when enrichers are stalking the streets, print off articles that illustrate and inform and place in the hands of those who need to understand because they’re the intended victims next time.

Yes it can be slower but it’s better than doing nothing and letting the others win by default, the news that’s “naughty” enough, i.e. frowned upon by the grown ups, will always appeal to the young, they’ll see it gets around to those that need to know and you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re making the left even more angry.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago

Another term for “fake news” is “free speech inhibition”comment image

Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

Then they’ll start making phony calls.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago

They are already doing that.

soundclick.com/Globalfirm
soundclick.com/Globalfirm
6 years ago

I bet if Grandmufti Mark Zuckerberg would get killed the “Palestinian” authority would pay money to his punk-ass wife.
Capitalism is when firms like Facebook can impose their Sharia-censorship on non-Muslims without competition.
Freeze their money.
# Free the Leavenworth 10, the Biafra-leader, the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, Israeli soldier Azaria & so on.

JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
6 years ago

Yep, and fascist lover Zuck has a huge wall around his house. He tried to get away with a huge wall on some property he purchased in Hawaii, and got some embarrassing push back from the natives. Don’t know how that turned out.

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
6 years ago

When I first started reading the Geller report, things were troublesome. Now they are dire. Today, Easter Saturday in Sydney, I was greeted by around 8 staff in the hardware store and then the supermarket. Not one said Happy Easter. They were no doubt instructed thusly. I have been to church a number of times during Holy Week.
My beliefs are very much Christo centred and His last words on the Cross were “It is finished”.
This is why Mohammad is a liar and a deceiver. Islam is NOT a religion. It is a totalitarian ideology that seeks to destroy Christ’s message and His followers and any other infidel who do not subscribe to their way.

I have enjoyed reading the articles and comments and feel an affinity with some of you and I am sure we would be friends were that possible, so thank you and God bless you.Learn as Paul has instructed us to ‘Pray Unceasingly”, as dark times will envelop those whose house is not standing on a solid foundation.

One day and not too far away will come a time that these forums will be taken away and it’s subscribers will be sought for sedition. I will pray for you. Perhaps some of you might pray for me. 🙂 Do not ignore Fatima.

JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
6 years ago

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michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
6 years ago
Reply to  JacksonPearson

Thanks mate. God Bless

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

I agree. It won’t come under Trump’s presidency, but perhaps under whatever islamic “Democratic” presidency follows.

Robert
Robert
6 years ago

There was a story on 60 Minutes recently on “fake news”. They gave examples of both left wing and right
wing fake news. Then they said at the end how Facebook amongst others was going to try and filter this
out. What wasn’t said was that in doing this there was the possibility of them also censoring legitimate news.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Avoid face book, it has no value or use, it is a pre-digested vomit of brain dead lies that are passed off on the gullible .

cai
cai
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Here is an opportunity for some smart & savvy ‘geek’ to launch an alternative site that is a nemesis to FB.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  cai

There are a couple, the only one that comes to mind right now is “Mewe”

Ichabod Crain
Ichabod Crain
6 years ago

Nothing to see here, folks. This is all fake news. I read about in at Snopes. They will set you straight.
– of course that’s sarcasm, but these sites that will supposedly tell you what’s fake and what’s true are very biased. I was having a debate with a friend and sending him links to back up my point, and he came back with links to Snopes and others sources attacking my sources. It was ridiculous, because with the topic I was discussing (related to Islam) , all the MSM provide fake news all the time.

David Hummel
David Hummel
6 years ago

Time for new social media, not one started by a liberal progressive commucrat like zuckerberg.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

FAKEBOOK

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notearsinheaven
notearsinheaven
6 years ago

the new world globalist fascist order is here folks. GET your muzzle FREE !!!

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