FB Fake News Measures October 26th, 10:44 for news distribution without relying on machine learning
While it's been over a year until the US presidential election in November next year, Facebook is a new news that only posts reliable articles provided by the news media to prevent the spread of "fake news" Delivery started.
Facebook top Zuckerberg CEO announced on the 25th that it has begun piloting a new news delivery service in the United States.
Specifically, a new tab dedicated to news distribution is set up in the Facebook app of the smartphone, and it is provided by about 200 reliable media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and FOX TV. It means that only articles that are present.
From the development stage, we listened to opinions from journalists and editors, and the articles to be published were not automatically selected by machine learning, but were selected by a specialist team created by journalists.
In the face of Facebook, in response to the fact that a lot of fake news was spread during the last US presidential election in 2016, there was a growing demand for countermeasures.
The company plans to expand the distribution of news to overseas media, etc. As more than a year will pass until next year's presidential election, it will attract attention as an effective measure against the spread of fake news.