New: What happens when you try to post fake news on Facebook now

[RocketSnail]

Lol what a joke

[editline]19th March 2017[/editline]

Finally deleted my facebook. This is fucking bullshit

[JennyC6]

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;51984122]Can you stop generalizing please??? Why do you think it's so harmful when people on one side generalize then proceed to generalize everyone on that side as generalizers?

This isn't an issue of "right wingers", it's an issue of uneducated hicks and regressionists.[/QUOTE]

The incredibly strong overlap between the 'uneducated hicks and regressionists' group and the 'right wingers' group is undeniable. It's almost like being an uneducated hick provides a fertile ground for backwards ideas that serve to harm the very people voting for them every November!

[Burro]

[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;51984235]The people who read the fact-checkers and are thus able to find discrepancies in their fact-checking process, of course![/QUOTE]

It doesn't matter anyway, because I know the Judo-Queer conspiracy controls everything and these warnings will only aid me in identifying the truth!

(It would not surprise me if a few batshit individuals drew this conclusion)

[MightyLOLZOR]

fucking Snopes? seriously?

[Hail Satan]

[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;51984528]fucking Snopes? seriously?[/QUOTE]

Snopes is actually really good

[Anti Christ]

[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;51984528]fucking Snopes? seriously?[/QUOTE]

Do you have a problem with snopes?

[redBadger]

Now can facebook please deal with obvious stolen content with annoying compressed emojis slapped all over it

[LoneWolf_Recon]

As awesome as this is, I have worry that this'll be abused, like MGS2 levels of abused:

[video=youtube;eKl6WjfDqYA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6WjfDqYA[/video]

[Kuro.]

Had the same thought. This is well intentioned, but is a step onto a path of information control that will no doubt be abused in the future.

[ROFLBURGER]

I was skeptical about Snopes only because the name reminded me of Slate. And really, that's the only reason why you would ever be Skeptical of Snopes :v:.

[SKS]

now watch as 'news' sites set up countermeasures.

[Silence]

Knowing the people who believe these sensationalist and fake news stories, they will see "disputed by dem librul medias" as a badge of honor, not a sign it could be false.

[sYnced]

administrative over-reach.

[Sobotnik]

if this had been around a few years ago we could have seen some different election results

better late than never i suppose

[DogGunn]

This isn't going to change much to be honest. People who post fake news on Facebook are just going to think Facebook is conspiring against them.

[hexpunK]

[QUOTE=RocketSnail;51984433]Lol what a joke

[editline]19th March 2017[/editline]

Finally deleted my facebook. This is fucking bullshit[/QUOTE]

* company actually attempts to approach the issue of outright lies being propagated *

"What FUCKING BULLSHIT is this FUCK YOU for doing the RIGHT THING!!!!"

You really do amaze me sometimes dude.

[editline]20th March 2017[/editline]

Snopes is probably a pretty solid choice for this service tbh. I do wonder who else they'll pull in to strengthen the accuracy of it later though. Snopes and the AP are solid starters at least.

[Da Space Core]

[QUOTE=RocketSnail;51984433]Lol what a joke

[editline]19th March 2017[/editline]

Finally deleted my facebook. This is fucking bullshit[/QUOTE]

I mean there are bigger and better reasons to delete ones facebook, particularly when talking about privacy.

really, I would only be upset with this if they outright banned these "sources"

[OmniConsUme]

The problem with snopes is legit conservative sites have caught them "smudging" facts. Especially Kerry's Foundation.

[Snowmew]

[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;51985050]The problem with snopes is legit conservative sites have caught them "smudging" facts. Especially Kerry's Foundation.[/QUOTE]

Do you have a better alternative?

[Sgman91]

[QUOTE=Snowmew;51985101]Do you have a better alternative?[/QUOTE]

It's the problem of making any site "official." There's no such thing as truly being unbiased. Personally, I think it's naive to think this sort of things will actually change things. If people aren't willing to take 10 seconds to check the validity of an article and/or don't have the common sense to notice when things seem fishy, then FB telling them it isn't verified isn't going to help.

[Mr. Someguy]

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;51984122]Can you stop generalizing please??? Why do you think it's so harmful when people on one side generalize then proceed to generalize everyone on that side as generalizers?[/QUOTE]

I am talking specifically about people who use the term "fake news" to describe media they dislike. That is not a generalization.

[paramud]

[QUOTE=TurtleeyFP;51984063]Next up Facepunch[/QUOTE]

Can we get this implemented? At least for a few members in particular?

[deerinheat]

How would satire (The Onion) be handled? I'm not a fb user anymore, but one thing I remember is all of the fucktards that would take onion articles seriously

[Fulgrim]

[QUOTE=RocketSnail;51984433]Lol what a joke

[editline]19th March 2017[/editline]

Finally deleted my facebook. This is fucking bullshit[/QUOTE]

What is it about fake news that you like?

I'm a little confused as to why combating fake news would be a bad thing?, unless you personally somehow benefit from the unrestrained spread of total horseshit- why would this get you to delete your account?.

[Iamgoofball]

[QUOTE=deerinheat;51985585]How would satire (The Onion) be handled? I'm not a fb user anymore, but one thing I remember is all of the fucktards that would take onion articles seriously[/QUOTE]

I'll try to post some Onion soon and check it out

[Corn]

[QUOTE=fulgrim;51985618]What is it about fake news that you like?

I'm a little confused as to why combating fake news would be a bad thing?, unless you personally somehow benefit from the unrestrained spread of total horseshit- why would this get you to delete your account?.[/QUOTE]

"Combating fake news" is exactly what Trump has been doing. Do you not see the irony?

This will go from "stopping fake news" to "filtering out content that doesn't fit in with our fact-checkers' agenda" before you even notice something is wrong. Especially if you have similar beliefs to those of the fact checkers

[Tamschi]

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;51985651]"Combating fake news" is exactly what Trump has been doing. Do you not see the irony?

This will go from "stopping fake news" to "filtering out content that doesn't fit in with our fact-checkers' agenda" before you even notice something is wrong. Especially if you have similar beliefs to those of the fact checkers[/QUOTE]

Let's keep an eye on it so that doesn't happen, then.
It's not like that's something that happens completely unconditionally or without someone noticing.

[Sgman91]

[QUOTE=Tamschi;51985657]Let's keep an eye on it so that doesn't happen, then.
It's not like that's something that happens completely unconditionally or without someone noticing.[/QUOTE]

Come on now, we should all be able to agree that there's no such thing as keeping an eye on bias, to any reasonable degree.

[Corn]

[QUOTE=Tamschi;51985657]Let's keep an eye on it so that doesn't happen, then.
It's not like that's something that happens completely unconditionally or without someone noticing.[/QUOTE]

There's no keeping an eye on shit like this.

If we have biased users keeping an eye on biased fact checking sites keeping an eye on biased news, then we have a lot of layers of bias going on. I'd rather stick to one layer please.

[TurtleeyFP]

Facebook only sources fact-checkers signed up with [url=http://www.poynter.org/fact-checkers-code-of-principles/]Poynter's Non-Partisan Code of Principles[/url], whose single job is to remain nonpartisan and transparent. If someone fucks up at that, there's a global committee who can & will boot them off that list.