Recently bombarded with tons of complaints about fake news and data insecurity, Facebook hastened to lay out a number of features the other day, aimed at informing the users, in a deeper sense, about the content they are reading.
Some news articles shared on social media platforms, will now be represented by icon “I” standing for information. Field will tell users more about the publisher, it will show where in the world the article went viral and will offer more publications by the same media for reading.
Separately, it will show if any of your friends have already shared the story. While the first two functions were tested last year, the last two presents as new.
However, in the newly introduced functions seem to have a couple of questions. First, information about the media taken from Wikipedia, which, although this is usually seen as a reputable website, still crowdsourcing, which does not guarantee immunity from political or other biases. In addition, the reliance on this source called “comic” on Twitter, many people feeling deeply skeptical about the course as a whole:
Second, this feature is currently applied inconsistently, with some news, in which there is no information about any publisher. For example, video messages, which are often the Prime platform for creating fake news, as proven in Las Vegas, shooting in 2017, is not an icon at all. Nor have many of the right-wing conspiracy sites, as a scientist, a gateway, although both these places are covered by Wikipedia.
However, Facebook has promised to fix the shortcomings and make the features of universal application.
In response, many Twitter users began to share the video, proving that it takes time and effort to create fake news page on Facebook:
One Twitter user noted with regret that it is users who ultimately is responsible for spreading the fake news:
In a separate move, Facebook said they removed the feature that allows the user to enter a phone number or email address to find the others.
Used by fraudsters to clean up the profile data, Facebook said, apparently with reference to the case of the Cambridge analyst, in which, as initially recorded information on approximately 50 million Facebook users have been improperly handled.
Facebook now appears, however, that as many as 87 million users, most of them in the United States may have had their information illegally obtained and misused mining firm Cambridge intelligence. Revelation, in fact, signals the fact that almost two times as many Facebook users can be directly affected by the unauthorized sale of user data the social network to third party company with which the contract was made the team’s trump card to get their electoral targeting.
Separately, Facebook has long been in the center of the fake news scandal, since, as the American presidential election of 2016. Measures previously taken by the company management includes designation of suspense items with red flags, and entering in the section “related articles”, which was intended to ultimately to provide readers with reviews of sources of information on the same topic.
In addition, Facebook has tried priorities negative comments expressed disbelief at the news, but the movement led to the marking of the wrong news sources, as many reliable was slammed as fake.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
