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Fake news: FB unveils three-pronged strategy
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IANS | 24 May, 2018
To stop false news from spreading on its platform, Facebook has said it
put in place a three-pronged strategy that constitutes removing accounts
and content that violate its policies, reducing distribution of
inauthentic content and informing people by giving them more context on
the posts they see.
Another part of its strategy in some
countries is partnering with third-party fact-checkers to review and
rate the accuracy of articles and posts on Facebook, Tessa Lyons, a
Facebook product manager on News Feed focused on false news, said in a
statement on Thursday.
The social media giant is facing criticism
for its role in enabling political manipulation in several countries
around the world. It has also come under the scanner for allegedly
fuelling ethnic conflicts owing to its failure stop the deluge of
hate-filled posts against the disenfranchised Rohingya Muslim minority
in Myanmar.
"False news is bad for people and bad for Facebook.
We're making significant investments to stop it from spreading and to
promote high-quality journalism and news literacy," Lyons said.
Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday told the European Parliament leaders
that the social networking giant is trying to plug loopholes across its
services, including curbing fake news and political interference on its
platform in the wake of upcoming elections globally, including in India.
Lyons said Facebook's three-pronged strategy roots out the bad actors that frequently spread fake stories.
"It
dramatically decreases the reach of those stories. And it helps people
stay informed without stifling public discourse," Lyons added.
Although
false news does not violate Facebook's Community Standards, it often
violates the social network's polices in other categories, such as
spam, hate speech or fake accounts, which it removes remove.
"For
example, if we find a Facebook Page pretending to be run by Americans
that's actually operating out of Macedonia, that violates our
requirement that people use their real identities and not impersonate
others. So we'll take down that whole Page, immediately eliminating any
posts they made that might have been false," Lyons explained.
Apart from this, Facebook is also using machine learning to help its teams detect fraud and enforce its policies against spam.
"We now block millions of fake accounts every day when they try to register," Lyons added.
A
lot of the misinformation that spreads on Facebook is financially
motivated, much like email spam in the 90s, the social network said.
If spammers can get enough people to click on fake stories and visit their sites, they will make money off the ads they show.
"We're
figuring out spammers' common tactics and reducing the distribution of
those kinds of stories in News Feed. We've started penalizing clickbait,
links shared more frequently by spammers, and links to low-quality web
pages, also known as 'ad farms'," Lyons said.
"We also take
action against entire Pages and websites that repeatedly share false
news, reducing their overall News Feed distribution," Lyons said.
Facebook
said it does not want to make money off of misinformation or help those
who create it profit, and so such publishers are not allowed to run ads
or use its monetisation features like Instant Articles.
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