Swordsmyth
09-13-2018, 07:21 PM
Facebook on Thursday (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/expanding-fact-checking/) announced the expansion of their fact-checking army to send "photos and videos to all of our 27 partners in 17 countries around the world," after using an artificial intelligence which will use "various engagement signals, including feedback from people on Facebook, to identify potentially false content."
The company says that because people share millions of photos and videos on Facebook each day, it creates an "easy opportunity for manipulation by bad actors."
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/zuckerberg%20data.jpg
How would an unsuspecting Facebook user know if this was real or not?
"The same hoax can travel across different content types, so it’s important to build defenses against misinformation across articles, as well as photos and videos," said Facebook.
Facebook categorizes photo / video "misinformation" into three categories: "(1) Manipulated or Fabricated, (2) Out of Context, and (3) Text or Audio Claim. These are the kinds of false photos and videos that we see on Facebook and hope to further reduce with the expansion of photo and video fact-checking."
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/types-of-misinformation.jpg
So, if Facebook users report a picture or video suspected of being Fake News, Facebook AI will use machine learning to analyze said reports and then filter them to humans to make the final decision on what's real and what's fake.
For example:
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/kim-jong-un-eating-mcdonalds-photoshopped.jpg
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-13/facebook-starts-fact-checking-photos-and-videos-using-ai
The company says that because people share millions of photos and videos on Facebook each day, it creates an "easy opportunity for manipulation by bad actors."
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/zuckerberg%20data.jpg
How would an unsuspecting Facebook user know if this was real or not?
"The same hoax can travel across different content types, so it’s important to build defenses against misinformation across articles, as well as photos and videos," said Facebook.
Facebook categorizes photo / video "misinformation" into three categories: "(1) Manipulated or Fabricated, (2) Out of Context, and (3) Text or Audio Claim. These are the kinds of false photos and videos that we see on Facebook and hope to further reduce with the expansion of photo and video fact-checking."
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/types-of-misinformation.jpg
So, if Facebook users report a picture or video suspected of being Fake News, Facebook AI will use machine learning to analyze said reports and then filter them to humans to make the final decision on what's real and what's fake.
For example:
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/kim-jong-un-eating-mcdonalds-photoshopped.jpg
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-13/facebook-starts-fact-checking-photos-and-videos-using-ai