Facebook is showing red warning labels above fake news links in the News Feed for some users in what appears to be a limited test. TechCrunch attained the screenshot below of the warning from a source. The warning reads "This website is not a reliable news source. Reason: Classification Pending" In some cases, 'State-Sponsored News' appears as a reason.
The warnings are one of the first visible sign of the new approaches to fighting fake news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out last month. We've reached out to Facebook with a request for comment and will update if we receive a response.
The fake news flag tests appear to have been running for over a week, though they seem to be vanishing from some users' feeds as quickly as they appear. That behavior is in line with the way Facebook regularly tests new product features through limited, live rollouts to small swaths of its massive user base.
The warning message in the screenshot is from an instance of the test that appeared live today. It shows a flagged a story from occupydemocrats.com, a website included on a widely circulated list of fake news sources. The headline reads "2,000 Veterans Just Arrived At Standing Rock To Form 'Human Shield' Around Protesters."
Notably, this particular news story checks out as true and was also picked up by The New York Times and Reuters, among other reliable fact-checking outlets. That suggests that Facebook is blacklisting entire sites rather than individual news stories. It also demonstrates the potential for false positives in Facebook's system, where accurate stories are slapped with the "not reliable" warning.
Hacker news user ideonexus noted the same warning feature last week:
"Coincidentally, I was on FB today and started seeing a red flag on two friends' posts reading, "This website is not a reliable news source. Reason: [REASON]" with reasons like state-sponsored news and unclassified. The flag appeared on an article about Pokemon Go that was clearly sensationalist speculation and a conspiracy website about George Soros.Facebook has endured intense criticism for allowing fake news to proliferate on the News Feed, as some believe hoaxes and misleading stories helped Donald Trump get elected. While at first the company was reluctant to admit fake news was a big problem, media pressure spurred it towards action.
Fake news is a scourge that threatens an informed democracy, though it would be risky for Facebook alone to become the truth police. Without proper transparency, that could lead to censorship and allegations of bias, as well as being an operational nightmare for the company. Working with outside verification services, media, or academic institutions could allow Facebook to classify fake news without assuming full control of or responsibility for the decisions about what's true.
and controlling thoughts with control over information have been the key to enabling the 20th and 21st centuries organized crime families to maintain their grip on power. These families are the richest families, and generally speaking theirs is a private club which is maintained among themselves.
Molding reality is what is behind the fake BS Dectector plug-in. The link from the article shows how false the supposed BS Detector originated, just look at the nonsense posted at the link itself taken here from the article above.
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I built this in about an hour yesterday after reading Zuck's BS about not being able to flag fake news sites. Of course you can. It just takes having a spine to call out nonsense. This is just a proof of concept at this point, but it works well enough.
We here whom use Sott.net for a a source of information also realize this has nothing to do with any proliferation of misinformation since the purveyors of misinformation are of course the very ones creating most or all of the existing misinformation.
The straw man is the pretext of fake news which they themselves are creating in order to create the illusion that there is a problem, which of course they have a ready made solution.
I would suggest taking a look at the Economists 2017 cover and the Tarot Card which features a blindfolded Statue of Liberty wearing VR Glasses, holding light bulb instead of a torch, and while pushing the button on a 3D printer churning out crackerbox homes, but above her head is the mathematical sign for Google.
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This magazine is the product of the Bilderbergs, and specifically from the Rothchilds, for those whom are new to reading the future, because it does tell you the future because that is what they are all about. It's a loaded game, like a crooked horse race where the bet is rigged because they know exactly who is going to win. After all, they are the ones rigging the race.
So funny the precious snowflakes seem to have forgotten all about how their Hitlery and the rabid support she had for implementing mind control over the distinguishing dominate feature of their own epoch of existence that makes their generations the first to be free, and yet they run back to the safety of the slaughter pens when sent them to kill untold million under the guise of the enemy, to enslave each other under the guise of drug wars, to buy into a thousand other crimes which have plagued humanity.
Like having a Trump Filter is smart thing, like pretending he doesn't exist, isn't your elected leader, just like all presidents have been elected. Just too much to handle; have to go suck my thumb and pull the blankets over my head. Lol!
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