Facebook Scraps “Disputed” Flags on “Fake News”

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Facebook has scrapped an effort to crack down on misinformation on the giant social network by showing "disputed" flags on articles that third-party fact checkers deemed false. The company made the change after academic research suggested that marking a story as false, or "disputed," can backfire "and further entrench someone’s beliefs.”

After a year of testing and learning, we’re making a change to how we alert people when they see false news on Facebook. Academic research supports the idea that directly surfacing related stories to correct a post containing misinformation can significantly reduce misperceptions. We’ve seen in our own work that Related Articles makes it easier to access fact-checkers’ articles on Facebook.
 
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MrDeaf said:
Oh, I see they have realized that people only want to read news that is tailored to their misguided beliefs.
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Yes, we all need to reinforce our stereotyped beliefs whatever they may be. It would be worse than awful if we all started talking and compromising to some reasonable intermediate position once again. ;)
 
MrDeaf said:
Oh, I see they have realized that people only want to read news that is tailored to their misguided beliefs.
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Actually they probably found the SJW Botnets that false flag content they disagree with like on Youtube and Twitter were fucking up their algorithms ;) Not that the staffs at these social media companies need help flagging and dumping libertarian and conservative voices, seems like lately they have that quite well in hand.
 
When a significant portion of your users embrace fantasy over reality and consider yelling "fake news" to be the most important defence of their fantasy, flagging something as fake news is like handing out badges of honour.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
When a significant portion of your users embrace fantasy over reality and consider yelling "fake news" to be the most important defence of their fantasy, flagging something as fake news is like handing out badges of honour.
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What's funny is I honestly can't tell what side you're on. It's so out of hand now that literally nothing is considered legit and factually based unless it aligns with your political views.

We are so fucking fucked. I don't see how we are ever coming out of this without some sort of armed conflict i.e. Civil War 2.
 
Colonel Sanders said:
What's funny is I honestly can't tell what side you're on. It's so out of hand now that literally nothing is considered legit and factually based unless it aligns with your political views.

We are so fucking fucked. I don't see how we are ever coming out of this without some sort of armed conflict i.e. Civil War 2.
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You're saying that as if the first Civil War solved all the problems. I mean shit, the ones who lost then yell the loudest now.
 
RealBeast said:
I see what you did there, but I still want to punch people in the face that use the term "fake news." Can't we please go back to the old ways and just call them f'ing liars.
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The term "fake news" is wonderful because you hear it and instantly know you're dealing with a shithead. Takes away all the guesswork!
 
Colonel Sanders said:
I don't see how we are ever coming out of this without some sort of armed conflict i.e. Civil War 2.
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Not a Civil War 2, more like a Singularity aka AI takeover.

Facts are overrated.
My timeline has been raped by PragerU videos telling lies about Israel history.
But i am still 200% behind USA decision to move USA embassy to Jerusalem.
Not because i believed in any of those lies, but simply because i do not want to live in any reality version where Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel
( because most of those involve nuclear wastelands)
 
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