Facebook's going to need all the help it can get to combat fake news. With that in mind, the company is enlisting users to fight the good fight, revealing a five-part plan to cleanse its platform of faux publishers that make money off click-bait headlines that contain blatant untruths. The test will initially be seen by a limited faction of the platform's 156.5 million U.S. users. It's also partnering with Poynter's International Fact Checking Network, which includes Snopes.com, Factcheck.org, Politifact, the Associated Press and ABC News, to create a small army of fact-checkers that will constantly review news-minded items on Facebook. Additionally, the digital giant is looking to effectively deny fake news sites from amplifying their lies with news feed ads. Here are the five measures being rolled out: 1. You can report fake news with a couple of actions. Some Facebook users will start seeing the option of flagging posts that come from phony sites such as 110PercentFedUp.com, ActivePost.com, ABCNews.com.co and EnduringVision.com. They can even send a message to the person who shared the post. 2. Fact-checkers will step in. Facebook will then utilize such reports, along with other detected fake-news signals like questionable URLs, to send stories to Poynter's network. If the fact-checkers identify a story as phony, it will get marked as disputed and be served lower in news feeds. These stories are still shareable while containing a warning that the... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Facebook has been testing a tool with five publishers including BuzzFeed to help them improve their reach on the platform. The post Continuing charm offensive, Facebook creates tool to boost news publishers’ reach on the platform appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Thompson says site’s attempts to rank news outlets sounds like ‘controlled society’Facebook should consider completely removing news from users’ feeds unless it can find a way to avoid low-quality stories clogging up the site, the chief executive of the New York Times has said.Mark Thompson... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook announced Thursday that it is pumping another $4.5 million into Facebook Journalism Project initiatives for news publishers. Global head of news Campbell Brown said in a blog post that Facebook will put $3.5 million toward the Facebook Membership Accelerator pilot program and contribute... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook announced last month that it was funding an initiative to create news shows from 10 to 12 U.S. publishers for its Facebook Watch video platform, and the first slate of those shows will begin streaming Monday, July 16. Head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown and product manager... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While Facebook tries to close the book on its Cambridge Analytica scandal, it's still dealing with many more. The FTC is conducting a non-public probe into the company's behavior around privacy data, the EU's stricter laws are making it hard for the... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Archive of political content becomes batleground between publishers and platformsGeorge Orwell wrote in his essay Politics and the English Language: “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues.” When Facebook constructed a new archive of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publisher formed a six-person emerging platforms team to experiment with new products and features. The post Sports publisher theScore’s Facebook Messenger bot has 500,000 monthly users appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two new surveys suggest the public still value traditional news publishersWhen you try to imagine a media diet consisting only of retweets, random blogs or the Facebook posts of family and friends, you grasp the value of journalism created by professional media organisations. Traditional news... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown explained in a blog post why news publishers will not be exempted from the social network's recent introduced policy on political ads. Facebook announced last month that all election-related and issue ads in the U.S. on both Facebook and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News organizations want Facebook to stop treating them like political and issues-based advertisers, claiming that the social network's new rules could negatively impact how the public views journalism.On Monday, media advocacy groups addressed a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is paying news publishers, but the terms show the power is still with the platform. The post The Rundown: With Watch news shows, Facebook still holds the cards appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sing along with Facebook? The social network announced Tuesday that it is testing the ability for people to include music in the personal videos they create, and it introduced a new feature, Lip Sync Live. Facebook now has licenses through millions of songs through deals with music publishers... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the first time, researchers will be able to access Facebook's data and publish their findings without pre-approval from the company. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2018-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last month, Facebook published its internal community enforcement guidelines for the first time and today, the company has provided some numbers to show what that enforcement really looks like. In a new report that will be published quarterly, Facebo... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Back in January, Facebook announced that it would henceforth de-emphasize posts from brands and publishers in users’ news feeds in favor of ones from friends and family. Media organizations—which have long been dependent on Facebook for traffic, albeit more than a trifle embarassed by that... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Company tells Australian regulator that news makes up just 5% of content shared, and downplays its collection and use of people’s data• Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon Facebook has told the Australian competition regulator that news makes up just 5% of the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MoneySavingExpert founder says firm failed to stop false adverts luring victims into scamsMartin Lewis, the consumer advice and money-saving expert, is suing Facebook for defamation after it published dozens of fake adverts featuring his face and name. He is seeking exemplary damages in the high... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook says as many as 87 million people may have had their data accessed in the Cambridge Analytica scandal - an increase from the 50 million disclosed in published reports. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has been making attempts to restore people’s trust in what they come across in their news feeds. In the latest example, the company is rolling out new features that aim to give users more information about the publishers and stories they read. Originally conducted as a test last year,... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2018-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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