Facebook has begun fact checking photos and videos, beyond news articles. It’s also now preemptively blocking the creation of millions of fake accounts per day. Facebook revealed this news on a conference call with journalists about its efforts around election integrity.
Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s product manager for civic engagement also explained that Facebook is now proactively looking for foreign-based Pages producing civic-related content, and quickly removes them from the platform if they violate terms of service which he said can prevent divisive memes from going viral. Facebook first piloted this tool in the Alabama special election, but has now deployed it to protect Italian elections and will use it for the U.S. mid-term elections.
Facebook implemented its first slew of election protections back in December 2016, including working with third-party fact checkers to flag articles as false. But those red flags were shown to entrench some people’s belief in false stories, leading Facebook to shift to showing Related Stories with perspectives from other reputable news outlets. As of yesterday, Facebook’s fact checking partners will begin reviewing suspicious photos and videos which can also spread false information.
Normally, Facebook sends fact checkers stories that are being flagged by users and going viral. But now in countries like Italy and Mexico in anticipation of elections, Facebook has enabled fact checkers to proactively flag things because in some cases they can identify false stories that are spreading before Facebook’s own systems. “To reduce latency in advance of elections, we wnated to ensure we gave fact checkers that ability” says Facebook’s News Feed product manager Tessa Lyons.
We’ll have more details soon.
from iFeeltech IT News Mix4 https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/facebook-fact-check-photos/
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