A study by Avaaz may have overstated the problem of false stories on Facebook, but it also revealed cracks, loopholes, and limitations in Facebook's systems
@WillOremus https://medium.com/... Roger McNamee / @moonalice : A thoughtful piece by @WillOremus offers hope relative to disinformation on FB in 2020. Gaping holes remain in FB's disinformation blocking, especially wrt FB Groups, videos posted from other platforms (e.g. TikTok), and Instagram (where less has been done). https://twitter.com/... Scott Galloway / @profgalloway : - misinformation has evolved - the virality of campaigns increases as elections get near - of course, the more outrageous, the farther it spreads—100 false news items had generated a combined 8.9 million interactions—likes, comments & shares @WillOremus https://onezero.medium.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Recently, a widely cited report suggested fake news may actually be more prevalent on Facebook now than in 2016. I found some problems with that analysis. Most experts say it's a bit harder for blatantly false stories to go viral now than three years ago. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : In 2016, fake news flooded Facebook. Will that happen again in 2020? I dove into the research on how well the social network's fact-checking systems are working, and why so much political misinformation is still going viral: https://onezero.medium.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : That's the good news. The bad news is, completely made-up stories are still racking up more than a million shares. Like this one claiming that Pelosi diverted $2.4B from Social Security to pay for the impeachment. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : You will perhaps not be entirely shocked to learn that much of the viral misinformation being shared on Facebook in 2019 targets Democratic women, particularly women of color. Lies about @AOC and @IlhanMN were among the year's most viral, per @Avaaz. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : What's interesting is that FB's fact-checkers *did* catch and debunk the Pelosi story. Yet it fell through the cracks of FB's systems, for complicated and dispiriting reasons. You can still post it today, with no warning and no hint that it's false. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
“Facebook's fight against misinformation, like its struggle with content moderation, is one that it is unlikely to truly win without fundamental changes to the platform.” — @WillOremus https://medium.com/...
A thoughtful piece by @WillOremus offers hope relative to disinformation on FB in 2020. Gaping holes remain in FB's disinformation blocking, especially wrt FB Groups, videos posted from other platforms (e.g. TikTok), and Instagram (where less has been done). https://twitter.com/.…
- misinformation has evolved - the virality of campaigns increases as elections get near - of course, the more outrageous, the farther it spreads—100 false news items had generated a combined 8.9 million interactions—likes, comments & shares @WillOremus https://onezero.medium.com…
Recently, a widely cited report suggested fake news may actually be more prevalent on Facebook now than in 2016. I found some problems with that analysis. Most experts say it's a bit harder for blatantly false stories to go viral now than three years ago. https://onezero.medium.c…
In 2016, fake news flooded Facebook. Will that happen again in 2020? I dove into the research on how well the social network's fact-checking systems are working, and why so much political misinformation is still going viral: https://onezero.medium.com/...
That's the good news. The bad news is, completely made-up stories are still racking up more than a million shares. Like this one claiming that Pelosi diverted $2.4B from Social Security to pay for the impeachment. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
You will perhaps not be entirely shocked to learn that much of the viral misinformation being shared on Facebook in 2019 targets Democratic women, particularly women of color. Lies about @AOC and @IlhanMN were among the year's most viral, per @Avaaz. https://onezero.medium.com/..…
What's interesting is that FB's fact-checkers *did* catch and debunk the Pelosi story. Yet it fell through the cracks of FB's systems, for complicated and dispiriting reasons. You can still post it today, with no warning and no hint that it's false. https://onezero.medium.com/...…