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President Obama criticizes misinformation on Facebook
President Obama criticizes misinformation on Facebook
20/11/16
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| President Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg |
The President of the United States Barack Obama has
participated in the fight against the misinformation, warning that they could
harm political foundation to the extent “we won’t know what to fight for”. The
President criticizes the fake news on the Facebook.
In the press conference with German Chancellor Angella
Merkel, President Obama has criticized
the fake news on the Facebook and called on the importance of the truth.
“Because in an age where there’s so much active
misinformation, and it’s packaged very well and it looks the same when you see
it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television…where some overzealousness
on the part of a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression
elsewhere, if everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made,
then we won’t know what to fight for. And we can lose so much of what we’ve
gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market, based economies
and prosperity that we’ve come to take for granted.”
The Facebook has been struggling with the misinformation
since the US
presidential election campaign started. A recent research of BuzzFeed shows
that, before the election day, a lot of fake news have been posted on the Facebook,
more interacting than news of big mass medias.
The Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, denies the
thought that the news on Facebook had influenced the results of the election.
He called the thought was “extremely crazy”. Thought Mr. Obama does not
underestimate the fake news.
“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and
what’s not, and particularly in an age of social media where so many people are
getting their information in soundbites and snippets off their telephone. If we
can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have
problems,” the President said.
He also said that if people, whether they are conservative
or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the
democratic process and engage in the democratic process and are talking
absolutist views and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down.
In his previous speech, he said that such attacks add "the
blatant lie" on Facebook will make people start to believe them./.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is responding to sharp criticisms over fake stories appearing in its news feeds
There are a lot of fake news on Internet in general and on Facebook in particular
Fake news on the Facebook has a power to make people do bad things
There are also a lot of fake news on the Facebook about our Party and Government
although fake posts may not make up the bulk of the content on Facebook, they spread like wildfire — and Facebook has a responsibility to address it.
We need stronger machine learning to detect misinformation, easier user reporting and content warnings for fake stories,
A lot of misinformation is driven by financially and politically motivated spam
people want accurate information
Mark Zuckerberg is the front page editor of every newspaper in the world.
When reading news on Facebook or other social news page, we should have a filter to find out what's right or accurate because there are a lot of fake news
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