The social network, accused of not having prevented their proliferation in the U.S., will work together with organisations of check of the data
WASHINGTON.- Facebook announced yesterday that it will include a tool for users to report false news, following criticism that accuse the social network of having been lax with such information, which would have influenced the elections in the united States.
“we Believe that we have to give voice to the people and we cannot become the arbiter of the truth, so that we are addressing this problem carefully,” said the vice-president of Facebook, Adam Mosseri, in a blog post.
“We are focusing our efforts on clear hoaxes distributed by those who sent emails spam for his own benefit, and in the participation of our community of third party organizations,” said Mosseri.
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Facebook said that it will test a system that allows a user to mark as false a news report if you suspect that it is an assembly.
The social network said that it will work with organizations that adhere to the code of principles of the International Network of fact checking (check data).
“If the organizations of verification data identify a story as false, it is marked as disputed, and there will be a link to the appropriate article for explaining why,” said Mosseri.
Facebook was the target of harsh criticism for failing to put limits to a wave of false news that, according to some observers, may have helped to the triumph of mogul estate developer Donald Trump, to spread negative news unfounded about his rival, democrat Hillary Clinton.
Among the misleading news some said that pope Francis had backed the republican, or Hillary was associated with a pedophile ring that operated in a pizzeria of Washington.
Facebook dismissed the accusations that the social network, but intensified its efforts to prevent the echo of false news.
The giant social, with some 1800 millions of users around the world, insisted that it was not a “media company” and therefore not appropriate to make judgements, editorials on news shared on their platform.
Similarly, a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center showed yesterday that almost two out of every three adult americans (64%) believed that the false news causing confusion regarding key facts in current events.
Although many respondents said they feel that the fake stories are generating confusion, they were relatively sure of their own ability to detect deceit.
according To the survey, 39% said “confident” of being able to recognize the montages in the form of news, and another 45%, “somewhat confident”.
however, 16% acknowledged that shared a story that was later realized that it was false.
The White House attributed yesterday to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin , the direct responsibility of the cyber attacks that interfered in the presidential elections of the united States, which raised again the tension between the two largest nuclear powers in the world. “I don’t think these things happen in the Russian government without Putin’s knowledge,” said Ben Rhodes, a top adviser to president Barack Obama, the channel Msnbc.
“Everything we know about how it works Russia and to what extent Putin controls the government suggests that when we talk about a cyber attack of these features we are talking about the higher echelons of the government,” said Rhodes.
Agencies AFP and EFE
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