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Facebook is reportedly testing a ‘virality circuit breaker’ to stop misinformation

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Facebook is reportedly piloting a new way to check viral posts for misinformation before they spread too far, The Interface reports. The method is a kind of “virality circuit breaker” that slows the spread of content before moderators have a chance t...

Twitter will fix its overly aggressive ‘5G corona’ fact-checking

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Twitter knows its system for automatically fact-checking posts mentioning 5G and the coronavirus is more than a little overzealous, and it’s hoping to tone things down. The social network has promised to “improve” the precision of its labeling system...

Joe Biden calls on Facebook to ‘promote real news, not fake news’

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Joe Biden has a new warning for Facebook: clean up your misinformation and political ad policies before the election or the company will stay “on a crash course to let the same mistakes happen again” as did in 2016. Biden’s campaign shared an open le...

Twitter clumsily fact-checks ‘5G corona’ tweets

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Twitter is getting more aggressive with the use its fact-checking label — it might even be hard to avoid the label in some cases. Business Insider and others have noticed that Twitter is displaying a “get the facts on COVID-19” link underneath seemin...

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey disagree on fact checking the president

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Mark Zuckerberg has waded into Twitter’s spat with Donald Trump over the decision to fact-check his tweets. In an interview with Fox News Thursday, Zuckerberg repeated that he doesn’t believe social media platforms should become the “arbiter of truth...