A question for @facebook & @AFPFactCheck in relation to #srilanka. AFP Fact Check is https://factcheck.afp.com/fact-checking-afp … is official 3rd party fact-checker at #Facebook. What is it doing in #lka to reduce #misinformation on platform? Why is debunked content still allowed on platform?
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Fact-check article by AFP https://factcheck.afp.com/these-statues-sri-lanka-were-laid-their-side-due-heritage-restrictions-temple-they-were-not-attacked … flags a page on FB with
#misinformation still up, still being engaged with, still shaping perceptions, still fuelling violent othering, still being shared.#lka#srilankapic.twitter.com/9v0zLJfUmN
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When
@AFPFactCheck & said page interactions compared, AFP's reach & relevance is, well, negligible. Peak on 2nd Sept is, in fact, the very post/story AFP went on to debunk. That post in Sinhala, fact-check in English explains somewhat discrepancy in reach https://twitter.com/sanjanah/status/1170227199514832897 …pic.twitter.com/ebceEa1AKk
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But to be fair by
@AFPFactCheck this is a#Facebook#misinformation ecology & platform issue for close upon decade. https://groundviews.org/2012/04/23/bigoted-monks-and-militant-mobs-is-this-buddhism-in-sri-lanka-today/ … from '12 1st examples of FB use to incite hate/violence. Same page(s) exist to date, producing same content.#lkaShow this thread -
During 2018
#couplk, just 24hrs after President's announcement, these pages showed clear, deep partisan bias https://twitter.com/sanjanah/status/1056120983667453952 … It got much worse https://twitter.com/sanjanah/status/1057038302363082752 … These pages in concert & clear patterns of coordinated behaviour act to malign & misinform.#lka
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Late 2018,
@Facebook said platform would significantly shift stance on 'borderline content' https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18097402/facebook-borderline-sensationalist-provocative-content-algorithm-changes … As@jake_k presciently noted, sketchiness of diagram https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18097402/facebook-borderline-sensationalist-provocative-content-algorithm-changes … harbinger of unmet promises. Borderline content *thriving* in#srilanka.pic.twitter.com/WKqu87WCAO
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Promise of fighting
#misinformation sounds great. What are metrics of application/progress for#srilanka? If not public, why not? How is@AFPFactCheck et al feeding into ML/AI around suppression of toxic virality? Why is company profiting from debunked false news stories?#lkapic.twitter.com/G5ukwDnN4B
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Many committed, conscientious folk at
#Facebook working on these 'VUCA' issues. But company keeps failing litmus test of basic transparency around promised initiatives + application of trusted fact-checking. Trust deficit grows. Unhelpful in#PresPollSL context.@zeynep#lkaShow this thread
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