Discussion

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  Exclusive: @Facebook is hiring part-time contractors via a third-party called Appen. They're meant to help FB's fact-checking partners more quickly corroborate or debunk stories that FB's machine learning tools flag as potential misinformation. https://www.axios.com/...

• @daveyalba Davey Alba on x

  Ah, Appen. I wrote this detail about Appen in a piece for @buzzfeednews two years ago. Appen has a reputation of having one of the lowest hourly wages in the contractor business ($10/hour when I was reporting this story). https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... …

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  Facebook is piloting community factcheckers. But “Facebook doesn't want to hire anyone who could have any sort of bias” and they're “meant to be representative of everyday Facebook users so they don't have any sort of particular expertise in factchecking” https://www.axios.com/..…

• @stigabell Stig Abell on x

  Interesting two criteria: - something that means nobody is qualified; - something that means everybody is qualified. https://twitter.com/...

• @dmitryopines Dmitry Grozoubinski on x

  “Mr Grozoubinski, I've had a look at your resume and you don't appear to have any relevant skills or experience to work as a coder here at @Google...” “That's right. I see myself more as representative of the average user...” https://twitter.com/...

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  Ah yes. That famous representative Facebook user, entirely free of all biases. https://twitter.com/...

• @edbott Ed Bott on x

  I am sure this will scale spectacularly well. And by “spectacularly well,” I mean not at all. https://twitter.com/...

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  Facebook's new anti-misinformation strategy appears to be paying a group of amateur fact-checkers whose political views are “representative of the Facebook community” to give non-binding recommendations to outside, professional fact-checkers. https://about.fb.com/...

• @adamberinsky Adam Berinsky on x

  It isn't often that I can share what I've been working on at Facebook. But I'm very excited that this product — that I've been working on for a year and half — is launching! https://about.fb.com/...

• @mantzarlis Alexios on x

  Zuckerberg had teased that this was coming 10 months ago > https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  Facebook's doing this because it's come under fire fire for being too slow to identify content as misinformation, but it doesn't want to hire people at Facebook to support fact-checkers for fear that those people could be labeled as biased. https://twitter.com/...

• @jgreendc Justin Green on x

  Facebook is hiring part-time contractors who aren't supposed to have specific experience to help with their fact checking https://www.axios.com/...

• @shiraovide Shira Ovide on x

  So Facebook is hiring contractors that will Google potentially false things that are on Facebook? https://about.fb.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Another example of how Facebook sees its various apps as different extensions of the same platform, a relatively new development that's been made possible by the departure of IG/WhatsApp founders https://twitter.com/...

• @b52malmet Barbara Malmet on x

  Politicians can still put up fake ads on Instagram. Figures. https://twitter.com/...

• @blakersdozen Blake Montgomery on x

  Facebook is going to start coordinating its misinformation efforts across its platforms: if an image gets flagged as false on Facebook, it'll be designated the same on Insta https://about.fb.com/...

• @joshconstine Josh Constine on x

  Instagram is expanding fact checking globally today after a US test in May, though politicians are exempt. At least it's using interstitials that initially block the lies instead of easily ignored flags https://twitter.com/...

• @joshconstine Josh Constine on x

  A new anti-anti-trust talking point we're sure to see: Instagram & Fb now sync up to label misinfo across the 2 apps..."so don't break us up" https://twitter.com/...

• @jasonabbruzzese Jason Abbruzzese on x

  How is this not something they were doing before https://twitter.com/...