@facebookwhy is EVERY undivided comment preview on my feed about fake stuff?!#facebook#fakepic.twitter.com / k9ttAmoFvC
— joanna mcgovern ( @jobrigitte)October 23 , 2017
Back in March , Facebookdebuted a featureintended to better highlight false news chronicle on its site by mark them as “ altercate ” by third - company fact - checker . While this does n’t prevent users from sharing a history , it gives them a non - partisan expert sentiment on the truthfulness of the clause . But simply promoting any commentary with the intelligence “ fake ” under story that may actually be legitimate is a gravel strategy for curbing nonsense on the platform .
Facebook , of course , has a historied chronicle of trying out little “ tryout ” on its user . The company messed with the emotional content on the News Feedsof nearly 70,000 users in June 2014to determine whether felicitous or negatively charged content online can instantly affect someone ’s mood . ( It can . ) The companionship also experiment with an “ I vote ” button on the platform for yearsto see how it influence voting deportment . And in 2012 , Facebook ’s Data Science Team randomlyhid link up hundreds of zillion of timesto “ evaluate how often people stop up promoting the same links because they have similar data source and interests,”according to Technology Review .
[ BBC ]
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