Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale and RNC chair Ronna McDaniel sent a joint letter to the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter last week asking them to guarantee conservative content will be treated equally on the social media platforms. The letter, which was posted in a tweet by Parscale Thursday, refers to Facebook and […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told media executives that Facebook is in the process of creating a system to rank news organizations by trustworthiness and will access user surveys to label whether news sources are “broadly trusted.” According to news reports about the meeting, news organizations scoring higher in user trust rankings will receive preferential […]
Veteran NBC anchor Tom Brokaw chided senators Wednesday for asking a series of questions to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exposed their lack of understanding of the platform and social media as a whole. Zuckerberg’s appearance demonstrated most Senators think the digital age means you can still count with your fingers — Tom Brokaw (@tombrokaw) […]
The recent scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook user data sparked outrage from both sides of the political aisle in Congress. However, that outrage appears to be late and misguided, as Obama’s campaign staffers used Facebook user data in the 2012 re-election campaign and some of the utilized data tools have been discontinued for […]
Philip Bump’s piece in the Washington Post is headlined, “Everything you need to know about the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook debacle,” but it should be headlined, “Every hint we can think of to drop” about the political data firm and its connection to the Donald Trump presidential campaign. Last Friday, Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica, the political division of […]
Social media giant Facebook’s latest answer to stem the flow of fake news is to send a two-question survey to randomly selected users. Facebook head of newsfeed Adam Mosseri said that the company will sample a new set of users each day and only use those responses for the company’s evaluations of trustworthiness. Mosseri did not […]
Facebook announced it will remove the “disputed” tag it implemented earlier this to alert readers of potentially false stories in an effort to combat the spread of fake news on the site after they realized the effort completely backfired. The social media giant said that the placing the tag on inaccurate stories may have actually […]
Confirming a rumor that had circulated for months, Facebook announced it has made conservative magazine the Weekly Standard its newest partner in its effort to fact-check news on the social media giants platform. The magazine will be the first conservative organization to partner with Facebook. Other partners include reporters from the Associated Press and ABC […]
Facebook has implemented procedures to battle the amount of fake news that spreads on the site. While the website reports it is confident it is making progress, it still has room for improvement. According to Facebook, once a story is given a false rating from a fact-checker subsequent ‘impressions” drop by as much as 80 […]
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg criticized rival social media platform Twitter for its decision to block Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Senate announcement video because it contained what it called an “inflammatory” statement regarding Planned Parenthood. “A lot of what we allow on Facebook is people expressing themselves. The thing about free expression is that when […]