Facebook rejects ‘false’ claim that half of its accounts are fake
Facebook has as termed “unequivocally false” a report that claims the social networking platform hosts one billion fake accounts, a media report said. According to…
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Facebook removes more pages, accounts with Russia links
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had removed hundreds of Russia-initiated pages, accounts and groups that it judged to be involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior…
Facebook hired a conservative lobbying firm with an ‘in-house fake news shop’ to combat PR crisis
The conservative lobbying firm that Facebook hired in the midst of an October 2017 public relations crisis about Russian disinformation included what one former employee…
Unlike in 2016, there was no spike in misinformation this election cycle
Social media misinformation rose significantly before the 2016 presidential election. Georgejmclittle/shutterstock.com Paul Resnick, University of Michigan A newsy photo of a public figure shows up…
Facebook launches ‘war room’ to combat election manipulation
Republished with permission by Knowhere News Facebook has built a physical “war room” in its California headquarters in an attempt to avoid repeating some of…
Facebook purges hundreds of pages and accounts linked to Russia, Iran
Republished with permission by Knowhere News Facebook identified a new political influence campaign designed to disrupt the midterm elections, taking down 652 fake pages and…
Facebook removes pages of Infowars and Alex Jones after outcry
Facebook has unpublished four pages belonging to conspiracy theorist and far-right radio host Alex Jones for repeatedly violating the company’s standards with inflammatory posts about…
Debunked Fake News Still Being Shared Despite Facebook’s Promises
By Kenneth White At the Global FactChecking Summit in June, Facebook announced they would be delivering data surrounding their new strategies to combat misinformation and…
House Democrats Are Planning to Release 3,000 Facebook Russia-Linked Election Ads
The ads may be released as early as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal, but first Facebook and Democrats must determine what and…
Facebook Releases Internal Acceptable Content Guide
By Kenneth White Facebook today released a 27 page document that provides content moderators enough specificity in judging the permissibility of hate speech, nudity, violence…