Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation

Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by joggery on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:06PM (#12924333)

You can't prevent false ideas spreading by censorship; quite the contrary.

The idea that one can create an AI or censor or committee to separate truth from falsehood and then put it in charge is plainly authoritarian.

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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by ben010783 on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:38PM (#12925202)

What about just keeping out stories that are patently false? If I did an image search for cars, I wouldn't want a boat in there. If I did a search for news, I wouldn't want a fabricated story.

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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by kmtrowbr on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:03PM (#12927210)

I agree with you. I wouldn't completely remove them, but I would mark the ones from certain sources as having a questionable origin.

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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by joggery on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:24PM (#12926157)

Such stories would not go viral.

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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by kmtrowbr on Thursday November 10, 2016 @10:27PM (#12927376)

That's not true: false, viral stories were the very lifeblood of this election.

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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by joggery on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:33PM (#12933582)

I'm sure that it so. However, for a story to spread it has to seem like it might be true to a significant fraction of the readers. So it can't be 'patently false'.

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