Mark fake news: Apparently things aren't going the way Facebook imagined. Since August 3, 2017, there has been a newsroom report from Facebook that the company will be trying out a new strategy.
According to the original strategy, false reports or doubtful posts on Facebook should be given warnings. This would have allowed users to recognize that there was something wrong with this article. according to an article in the Guardian from May 2017, the “disputed” tag actually resulted in the respective articles becoming even more prominent.
Netzpolitik.org wrote yesterday that the lack of marking in German-speaking countries is, on the one hand, based on the desire to avoid drawing attention to cases of doubt, but on the other hand, it also results from the fact that there are no other fact checkers in Germany besides the Correctiv had found cooperation.
Therefore, one cannot carry out an independent double examination of the cases. Therefore, there should now be a new, more discreet strategy that neither sparks outrage nor draws unwanted attention to dubious contributions.
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Facebook (once again) puts everything in the hands of users. By announcing in the newsroom that users should get as complete a picture as possible of a story or topic, Facebook wants to expand this completeness. This should be done with the help of the “related articles”. In 2013, related articles launched, allowing users to discover new articles that they might find interesting on a specific topic.
These articles appear in the news feed after reading an article on the same topic. In plain language, this means: Facebook displays content that deals with the same topic - but also controversially - with the note “more on the topic”. In April 2017, Facebook in the US began testing related articles, which can appear before a specific article shared in the News Feed has been read.
These supplementary articles revolve around topics that many people are talking about on Facebook and are displayed in a section below the link. According to Facebook, the feedback was positive, so the related articles should now be made more widely available. Facebook also notes that if they identify more potential false reports, they will be forwarded to external fact checkers.
Once an article has been verified by the independent fact-checkers, the fact-checking topic may then appear below the original post. The enhanced display of related articles will be available in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the USA.
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Dear readers, dear Facebook, we offer you all the opportunity to use our posts.
Especially dear Facebook, of course you can display our articles as related articles, including under the fake news that you run as sponsored posts. And don't worry, we won't let you down. We have been working on this very topic for over 6 years, and we have had and still have a quick answer to some of the tricky content. This makes it quite easy to display this as a related article. Comparisons:
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