Facebook wants to give it more to its users to classify false messages. " As part of our ongoing quality checks, we will nunfragen people wher y know a news source – and if so, if y ihrvertrauen, "wrote founder and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on his Facebook page.
The Ideedahinter is that some media only ir readers and viewers trust and be trusted across society. Facebook was criticized mainly for flood of counterfeit news – so-called fake news – during DerUS presidential election 2016 and has since tried to solve problem.
In a first attempt, DasOnlinenetzwerk had collaborated with media organizations that marked dubious or false reports with warnings. To ask Facebook community, however, was more objective solution, wrote Zuckerberg. Facebookselbst Wool did not decide what voice and what not, he reaffirmed position of company.
"Today re is too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in world," Zuckerberg wrote: "Social media allow people to disseminate information more quickly than before, and when we approach se Problemenicht concretely, we will end up "
In concrete terms, company will initially begin to give a priority imalgorithm in US to news sources that users trust. This should also be done at international Ebenegeschehen. Among us users, a diverse and RepräsentativeStichprobe has been selected, says Zuckerberg. The testing DerPrioritätensetzung start next week.
Facebook had already announced changes last week with which users ' newsfeed – The main view of Facebook – should make more contributions from friends and relatives and less from media and Unternehmenauftauchen. In his new post, Zuckerberg quantified ErwartetenEffekt for first time: The company expects that messages will n average only four percent of newsfeeds – so far re have been five of m. At same time, Inhaltevon media and companies discussed in circle of friends are to be gewichtetwerden higher.
Observers criticized that this would also allow controversial falscheBerichte to appear higher in view. With new announcement, Facebook could work against this fear. Facebook has been allowing users to evaluate content of ir newsfeed since 2016. Now principle could be extended to or spheres.
Date Of Update: 21 January 2018, 12:03
