Twitter, Instagram, Facebook info is factually correct? Check answer
Despite concerns around false claims, social media users continue to believe that the information they read and share on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook is factually correct
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Worried about Facebook misinformation? New tool deployed
Facebook has started letting groups automatically reject posts identified as containing false information. The step has been taken to stop the spread of misinformation.
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Top climate change deniers posts weren’t labelled on Facebook, report says – National |…
Facebook did not add labels to half of posts pushing content from top climate change deniers, according to an analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
The research, released on Wednesday, also follows news that lawyers…
Facebook critics call for release of its India human rights report
New Delhi: About 20 organisations, as well as whistleblowers Frances Haugen and Sophie Zhang, and former Facebook Vice President Brian Boland, have urged the world’s largest social network to release its long-delayed India Human Rights…
Facebook stood by as Donald Trump’s posts set America ‘on fire’ – National | Globalnews.ca
The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after then-President Donald Trump sent a warning on social media that looters in Minneapolis would be shot.
It had…
Facebook slow to fight COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on platform, critics say – National |…
In March, as claims about the dangers and ineffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines spun across social media and undermined attempts to stop the spread of the virus, some Facebook employees thought they had found a way to help.
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Inside the Facebook Files: Five things the leaked documents reveal
Facebook has been struggling to attract younger users for more than a decade, and some senior employees are alarmed over the company’s inability to keep teens engaged.
When asked by analysts about growth prospects, Facebook executives…
Facebook failed to stop global spread of abusive content, documents reveal – National |…
Facebook employees have warned for years that as the company raced to become a global service it was failing to police abusive content in countries where such speech was likely to cause the most harm, according to interviews…
Facebook draws ire of its own Oversight Board in first transparency report
Facebook isn’t being clear with the people who use its platforms and users are consistently left guessing about why the company removed their content, the social network’s Oversight Board said on Thursday while publishing its first…
‘We shouldn’t be surprised’: Docs show Facebook internal war amid U.S. Capitol riot – National…
As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, a protest of a different kind was taking place inside the world’s largest social media company.
Thousands of…