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Facebook's 'Fake News' Solution Isn't Going to Solve the Problem. Ever since the term was popularized by then- presidential candidate Donald Trump—and subsequently appropriated by Democrats—the stupid controversy over “fake news” has become a swirling vortex of pointlessness that refuses to go all the way down the drain. Now everyone’s calling legitimate articles and opinion pieces that contradict their own prejudices “fake,” as though disagreeing with something implicitly means it was manufactured out of whole cloth. Meanwhile, shouting “fake news” has done nothing to counter the explosion in social media- powered viral sites with names like the “Angry Patriot Movement” or “Political Garbage Chute,” many of which are run by hoaxers who have realized it’s embarrasingly easy to cash in on American ignorance. Here’s yet more evidence we are in for this crap for the long haul. A recent study from Yale University researchers has found Facebook’s new feature which tags posts as “disputed by third- party fact- checkers” has “only a very modest impact on people’s perceptions,” Nieman Lab wrote.

The team had 7,5. They found the disputed tag only raised participants’ accuracy in identifying incorrect information by about 3. Politico. For Trump supporters and 1. That’s possibly because they assumed Facebook would have flagged the articles as inaccurate if they were, something simply not possible given the scale of the problem and the limited resources Facebook has devoted to the problem.

Here’s the relevant section of the study flagged by Nieman Labs: The warnings were at least somewhat effective: fake news headlines tagged as disputed in the treatment were rated as less accurate than those in the control (warning effect), d=. However, we also found evidence of a backfire: fake news headlines that were not tagged in the treatment were rated as more accurate than those in the control (backfire effect), d=. This spillover was not confined to fake news: real news stories in the treatment were also rated as more accurate than real news stories in the control (real news spillover), d=. Although both groups evidenced a warning effect (Clinton, d=. Trump, d=. 1. 6, z=2. Clinton, d=. 1. 0, z=2.

Trump, d=. 0. 7, z=2. Trump, d=. 1. 1, z=2. Clinton, d=. 0. 2, z=. Trump and Clinton supporters was itself only marginally significant: meta- analytic estimate of interaction effect between condition and preferred candidate, z=1. Furthermore, the backfire was roughly the same magnitude as the warning effect for Trump supporters……while participants 2.

N=4. 46. 6), d=. 2. N=8. 05): for these younger subjects, the warning had no significant effect, d=. Note the paper has not yet been independently peer- reviewed, but does boast a fairly large sample size.)Still, even if the impact was larger, there’s something here which just doesn’t scan. It’s impossible to verify the entire internet, let alone every viral Facebook link. The social media company has paired with a number of fact- checking organizations including Politifact, Fact.

Check. org and Snopes. Scaling it further would put Facebook in a role it doesn’t want to be in: taking a cost- intensive role in finger- wagging at its users. Like its oft- criticized moderation strategy, which critics have targeted for more or less being the bare minimum, the effort could be interpreted as just a way for Facebook to cover its butt as it traffics in and profits off whatever its users choose to post. According to Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski, Facebook definitely realizes the problem can only be managed, not eliminated.“I suspect that it is not so much that they are in need of these particular stories to be debunked given that they appear to be generated by algorithm, but rather that they are using the stories that we debunk to build smarter algorithms that perhaps privilege real over fake news,” Binkowski told Gizmodo.“In other words, I do not feel as though our efforts are much more than a drop in the bucket but I do think that we are adding to a larger effort to contextualize this information and actual news,” she added. What I am hoping to see, and what I am actually seeing, is that other news organizations are taking our lead and contextualizing their fact checking ..

Which is exactly, I think, what Facebook is trying to do as well.”But this isn’t necessarily incongruous with Facebook preemptively deflecting criticism before the next time something completely bullshit spreads to millions of its users. Moreover, the definition of “fake news” is intentionally nebulous and self- serving. Is it inaccurate reporting? A fact presented without proper context, or simply context the reader would have preferred be included instead? Nefarious Russian (or George Soros- funded, depending on your bent) psychological warfare?

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Or just something the reader hates? Because for the current moment, all of these fact- checking efforts are now inexorably tied to this out of control, politicized controversy.

Binkowski, who noted critics have long attacked Snopes on partisan grounds, agreed there’s no easy solution.“I know [Facebook] does not want to remove fake news or hoax news or disinformation from their platform entirely, because who is the arbiter of what is fake news?” Binkowski said. But I do know that they want to drown it out with stories that have actually been vetted.”Unlike companies like Google which have an interest in providing verifiable information, New School media design professor David Carroll told the Washington Post, sites like Facebook are “about attention, not so much intention.”Facebook could “lose revenue if it shuts down a huge number of fake sites,” he added.

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Carroll thinks a better solution might be to get major players to agree to an independently crowdsourced, ad blocker- style list of fake sites, which is unlikely for the aforementioned revenue issue. This problem isn’t going away, though.

My mom loves me. But she also “likes” me—a lot. And apparently, when she does so on Facebook, it’s hurting my chances of becoming the next viral sensation. Here’s yet more evidence we are in for this crap for the long haul. A recent study from Yale University researchers has found Facebook’s new feature which tags. Facebook is testing a snooze function that mutes a page for a certain period, rather than forever. This would be even more useful on Twitter, where usually lovely.

Seeing as a certain brand of conservative has increasingly taken joy in trolling for trolling’s sake, which includes deliberately spreading misinformation in the hopes it makes liberals angry, it’s probably a fair bet Facebook’s disputed tag could become a badge of honor for right- wing producers and consumers of content. So too could this happen with liberals obsessed with, say, Trump- Russia conspiracies. Then we’re where we started, except for what it appears to be a minority of users who are already trying to ditch the echo chamber in the first place. If the problem is that people don’t care about facts in the first place, then trying to convince them what is or isn’t a fact is tilting at windmills.[Nieman Lab].

The Facebook Mom Problem Is Real. My mom loves me. But she also “likes” me—a lot. And apparently, when she does so on Facebook, it’s hurting my chances of becoming the next viral sensation. On his blog, engineer Chris Aldrich explains what he calls The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem. When you post something on Facebook, and your mom is the first to like it (and how can she not? Facebook thinks it’s a family- related piece of content and sets the audience accordingly.

Facebook’s process for determining what goes into your News Feed is frustratingly opaque. However,…Read more Read.

Here’s Aldrich’s dilemma: I write my content on my own personal site. I automatically syndicate it to Facebook. My mom, who seems to be on Facebook 2. The Facebook algorithm immediately thinks that because my mom liked it, it must be a family related piece of content–even if it’s obviously about theoretical math, a subject in which my mom has no interest or knowledge.

My mom has about 1. Facebook; 4. 5 of them overlap with mine and the vast majority of those are close family members).

The algorithm narrows the presentation of the content down to very close family. Then my mom’s sister sees it and clicks “like” moments later. Now Facebook’s algorithm has created a self- fulfilling prophesy and further narrows the audience of my post. As a result, my post gets no further exposure on Facebook other than perhaps five people–the circle of family that overlaps in all three of our social graphs. I, too, have a like- happy mom. Watch Silverado Hindi Full Movie there. Two seconds after I post a story I’ve written—say, a 3,0. She hasn’t read it, and probably never will, but she likes seeing her daughter’s face on her computer, and really, who can protest the unconditional support?

But because of her eager click, Facebook lumps the content in with my photos of Baby’s First Avocado, and shows it only to a small group of family members. While early likes by other relatives may have a similar effect, Aldrich says the algorithm problem does seem to be mostly mom- oriented. Until Facebook stops penalizing mom auto- likes, Aldrich writes that you can sidestep the problem with a little extra effort. Here’s how to make sure your Facebook posts reach an audience beyond Mom, Aunt Susie and Uncle Ken in Kansas. Set the privacy settings of your post to either “Friends except mom” or “Public except mom.”I know what you’re thinking. How awful! How can you do that to your own mother?

Did you know that birthing you took 3. Millennials! Wait, wait, wait, everyone. There’s a step two. At the end of the day, or as soon as it seems as though the post reached its maximum audience, change the audience settings to “friends” or “public.” Aldrich has been doing this, and has been seeing more impressions on his posts. I’m happy to report that generally the intended audience which I wanted to see the post actually sees it,” he writes.

Mom just gets to see it a bit later.” The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem Boffo Socko.