Facebook invited me to an event today where the company aimed to tout its commitment to fighting fake news and misinformation. I asked them why InfoWars is still allowed on the platform. I didn't get a good answer.http://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/media/facebook-infowars/index.html …
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Instead, we demote individual posts etc. that are reported by FB users and rated as false by fact checkers. This means they lose around 80% of any future views. We also demote Pages and domains that repeatedly share false news.
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It seems Facebook wants it both ways. No outright ban, because free speech. On the other hand, Facebook wants to claim it effectively demotes pages into oblivion, which sounds to me sort of like a ban without calling it a ban. So what happened to the whole free speech thing?
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point me in the direction of a left-leaning outlet comparable to InfoWars, zuckman
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Huffington Post
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do you think saying that the sandy hook massacre was a hoax is a valid opinion
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Not hard in this instance. But the harder part is deciding what to do with a Page that peddles conspiracy theories big and small. We don’t think banning them is the right option – better to demote posts rated as false and the Pages that spread them.
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