Will WhatsApp’s Misinfo Cure Work for Facebook Messenger?
To protect the election, the platform will limit message forwarding to five people at a time.
On Thursday morning, Facebook announced several new policies to wrangle misinformation on its platforms ahead of the November election. Among them: limiting the number of people or groups you can forward a message to at one time on Messenger. For a glimpse of whether that might work—and how well—you needn’t look further than another Facebook-owned company: WhatsApp.
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-messenger-limits-misinformation-election-2020
#US #election #misinformation #Facebook
To protect the election, the platform will limit message forwarding to five people at a time.
On Thursday morning, Facebook announced several new policies to wrangle misinformation on its platforms ahead of the November election. Among them: limiting the number of people or groups you can forward a message to at one time on Messenger. For a glimpse of whether that might work—and how well—you needn’t look further than another Facebook-owned company: WhatsApp.
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-messenger-limits-misinformation-election-2020
#US #election #misinformation #Facebook
YouTube will remove videos disputing USA 2020 presidential election
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election/
via www.engadget.com
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https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election/
via www.engadget.com
#yt #youtube #misinformation #usa #biden
Telegraph
YouTube will remove videos disputing the 2020 presidential election
YouTube told Engadget it would rely on its information panels to challenge claims in content posted before December 9th. In its blog post detailing the latest moves, YouTube said it already forbade content claiming widespread fraud in previous US presidential…
How Facebook got addicted to to spreading misinformation
~ Karen Hao
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020600/facebook-responsible-ai-misinformation/
https://nitter.42l.fr/glichfield/status/1370735851882299393
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~ Karen Hao
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020600/facebook-responsible-ai-misinformation/
https://nitter.42l.fr/glichfield/status/1370735851882299393
📡 @nogoolag @blackbox_archiv
#facebook #misinformation #ai #corruption
MIT Technology Review
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.