Posted on 09/19/2018 7:52:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Facebook said Wednesday that it's teaming with two U.S. nonprofits to fight the spread of disinformation that could impact elections, according to Reuters.
The social media giant will work with the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute ahead of upcoming elections in Brazil and the U.S., company executives said on a call with reporters.
“We know that there’s a lot more to do,” Facebook News Feed manager Greg Marra said Wednesday when asked about fake news that has spread recently in Brazil, according to Reuters.
Amy Studdart, a senior adviser at the International Republican Institute, told Reuters that details of the collaboration with Facebook are still being worked out, but added that the nonprofit intends to help Facebook employees “understand how their platform is being used on the ground all around the world.”
Facebook has faced significant scrutiny over disinformation since the 2016 election, with critics blaming it for failing to police information on its site leading up to the election.
Disinformation campaigns on Facebook have continued ahead of November's midterms.
In July, Facebook announced that it had uncovered a new coordinated disinformation campaign ahead of November's elections that used dozens of fake accounts and pages on its platform.
Facebook then announced last month that it had identified more campaigns and deleted more than 650 pages, groups and accounts linked to Russia and Iran for spreading disinformation.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last week that the company is better equipped this time around to fight potential interference efforts than it was in 2016.
“In 2016, our election security efforts prepared us for traditional cyberattacks like phishing, malware, and hacking,” he wrote in a blog post. “We identified those and notified the government and those affected. What we didn't expect were foreign actors launching coordinated information operations with networks of fake accounts spreading division and misinformation."
“Today, Facebook is better prepared for these kinds of attacks,” he added.
Goodness knows we can't trust our own judgment.
Fake Election News being identified as insufficiently Leftist posts.
The fact is that the American voters don't need any filters.
From what I have been hearing there is now a heavy casualty list of conservatives being pulled off of Facebook and Youtube and being removed from Google searches.
This International Republican institute....isn’t it McCain’s old personal institute? Isn’t it a fake Republican group? And weren’t they helping to arrange the ‘help’ to build up ISIS in 2013 and start this little civil war in Syria? And they want to fight ‘fake’ election news? You might as well call the International Fox Institute to guard the hen house.
A quick glance at wikipedia and they both look to be loberal/leftist outfits
Zuckerbook is a fart in the wind.
they cant stop the doom of the Rat party.
Big Propaganda rears its ugly head.
Facebook which campaigned for Obama and Clinton, will team with:
International Republican Institute: In 2018, Senator John McCain informed the board of his intention to step down as chair of IRI after 25 years in the role and recommended that Senator Sullivan succeed him. Senator McCain remained a member of the board.
but only in two countries’ elections.
one - the US - where Donald Trump is President, and the other -
‘Brazil’s Trump’ leads polls ahead of vote after stabbing
Aljazeera.com-19 hours ago
Non-partisan = liberal
Anything connected back to McCain....is liberal.
Facebook - facist censors of information
Google - facist censors of information (and in bed with the Chinese communists in doing that very thing. literally)
YouTube - facost censors of information
Nope. The common man can’t see the totalitarian agenda these people have in mind. We’re retards.
Facebook is teeming with non-profits?
Ah. So maybe they’re activists for these nonprofits tagging my FB posts as “racist”.
Ah. So maybe they’re activists for these nonprofits tagging my FB posts as - correction - “hate speech”...
Facebook should team up with beacons of unbiased objective impartiality like CNN, MSNBC, and Crybaby Chuck Schumer.
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