Facebook Will Show Users a Pop-up Warning Before They Share an Outdated Story (techcrunch.com) 44
Facebook announced Thursday that it would introduce a notification screen warning users if they try to share content that's more than 90 days old. From a report: They'll be given the choice to "go back" or to click through if they'd still like to share the story knowing that it isn't fresh. Facebook acknowledged that old stories shared out of their original context play a role in spreading misinformation, a fact that the social media company said "news publishers in particular" have expressed concern about old stories being recirculated as though they're breaking news. "Over the past several months, our internal research found that the timeliness of an article is an important piece of context that helps people decide what to read, trust and share," Facebook Vice President of Feed and Stories John Hegeman wrote on the company's blog.
I'm going to make a browser extension.. (Score:5, Funny)
Betting Mozilla will vote unanimously to include it as a mandatory add-on to Firefox.
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I'm surprised anyone is willing to put up with their shit. They're a stain on the otherwise mostly unwashed bedsheet that is the Internet. ;)
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Debunked stories. (Score:2)
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I'll settle for one to distributes mod point to anyone other than hard-right wing Nazi posters.
This account isn't that old, but the hard right sock puppets have a death grip on the site, including literal Nazi swastika ASCII art that mysteriously the owners are unable to block after 10+ years of the same post.
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You are funny. I see just the opposite. Any comment with even a hint of rightness is down voted.
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On come on, time for reality, Facebook like all social media sites, is where people go to tell lies about themselves. Make their life seem better than it is. Make themselves look cooler than they really (some are quite bad at it and make themselves look really lame). Typical for social media. If you expect the truth, do not log into social media. That social media tries to portrary itself as the truth, just a marketing lie, to sell to advertisers, we data mine the truth about people, no you data mine the li
How do you determine what is fresh? (Score:2)
If Infowars runs a story on how Trump is the most popular president who ever lived, and CNN calls it bullshit an hour later but Infowars never posts a correction, is that story marked as outdated?
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How about a "missing child" alert from a small newspaper in the middle of nowhere....except the article was updated 7 years ago to say that the child was found safe and sound.
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...and her cancer is cured, she's no longer interested in get well cards from around the world, and by the way, the hospital moved and the original mailing address is now an Amazon distribution center.
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The ones I see a lot are cases where a black person committed a crime a few years ago and then it gets posted by someone with the comment "Pretty disturbing stuff!" as if they're adding to the conversation on current events
Of course (Score:3)
"news publishers in particular" have expressed concern about old stories being recirculated
Indeed, "news" publishers should be very concerned about having people point out their past sins of omission, exaggerations, propaganda and outright lies.
Especially "news" publishers like, say, Facebook.
Wouldn't be necessary if.... (Score:2)
You can ask that your feed is presented in such a chronological order, but it doesn't appear that the changes are long lasting. Often by the next time I check facebook (which isn't that often), it's back to its normal way of displaying the posts that it thinks I most likely want to see first and I have to g
Re:Wouldn't be necessary if.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Do you ever feel like everyone is telling you that they know better than you what your own desires and needs are?
Between all the governesses and advertisers, it seems the proles are only fit as plastic toys for them, instead of real, live human beings.
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You aren't a live human being. You are a demographic. You are an entry in a database - a thousand databases. Rather than call you a wallet with pumps hooked up to your teats, you are referred to as a consumer.
Don't participate. Don't subject your meatspace "browser" to automated input. Don't visit it, don't listen to it, don't watch it, don't buy it, don't subscribe, don't install, don't view, don't expose yourself to parroting and intellectual cancer. You should have no idea what the next summer blockbuste
Good start. Now follow up for support sites (Score:2)
When I search for something, and get hits back with information/OS versions/Application versions from 10-20 years ago, it annoys me.
I see these types of responses even when I specifically search using the version of what I'm searching for.
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You do know Google has an option to filter by how old the site is, right?
Busy Body Internet (Score:3)
Just looking at the internet is proof of why you can't mix cultures.
Everyone is up in everyone's else's business. Telling how to lives, what they can eat, what to believe, what they can and cannot do.
Well, let me help you out. To everyone that has been oppressed, enslaved, abused, murdered, and in general disrespected...
Welcome to Society!
Where it's your body until I say otherwise.
Where it's my right to be this way but not your right to be that way.
Where my morals can be law but your morals cannot!
Where strawmen and hypocrisy win the day! And last but not least... where Democracy is what we want until the Democracy decided on something we did not like and now you are Destroying Democracy!
Oh shit... someone just said something we did not like... DOX THEM, gather your torches and pitchforks!
*gee, I wonder why people are so up in arms over shit nowadays... shooting people, hurting each other, making threats.... they must be crazy! Hey guys lets go burn shit down and protest for we... are not crazy!
At the end of the day folks, what is it going to take to help you realize that you are building the tools for your own oppression? Just like the black man being investigated as a hate crime for tying a knot the wrong way and people seeing it.
The dagger in your back is yours and you are the one that put it there!
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This is why some of us are a little choosier in who we'll work for.
Back in college, I caused a very interesting reaction when I apparently told an NSA recruiter that I wouldn't work for them, because they weren't doing their job. They seemed deeply offended--but hey, if you did your job...
Did it go something like this? https://youtu.be/mJHvSp9AKYg?t... [youtu.be]
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Just looking at the internet is proof of why you can't mix cultures.
Your point is that if we just lived in a monoculture, none of this would be an issue?
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If that is your takeaway then you are part of the group of people I am complaining about in my post.
The multiple cultures are blessings... but you should also avoid trying to shove them into each other too much as well.
Let them mix on their own terms and stop trying to force it. Forcing it is what creates MOST of the worst friction. There will naturally be friction no matter what you do.
People just need to be kind to others and stop fucking with them!
Way beyond time for this (Score:2, Informative)
1) Someone expressing sorrow at some singer who died. But they actually died 5 years ago. I don't remember who it was as I'm not a fan, but I remember thinking when I read the post "Hey. Didn't they die years ago?" So I looked and indeed they did.
2) Another friend who shared an article from 12 years ago about Amazon removing Animal Farm from some Kindles. It was over a copyright dispute and apparently the seller didn't actually hav
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It's going to get worse with election season looming.
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I2) Another friend who shared an article from 12 years ago about Amazon removing Animal Farm from some Kindles. It was over a copyright dispute and apparently the seller didn't actually have the rights to sell the book in the USA at the time
Actually (with irony so great as to supply all our steel needs for the next millennium) the book this happened to was 1984.
Free WAG (Score:2)
So someone will get outaged by a story about the "Ground Zero Mosque" and forward that article, driving traffic for the newer stories.(hypothetical example)
This may be a way for FB to rein in some of the socially corrosive marketing that goes on
A feature that doesn't make sense (Score:2)
They could call it ... (Score:2)
...But climate denial stories are still OK, right? (Score:2)
Facebook Creates Fact Checking Exemption for Climate Deniers...
https://popular.info/p/faceboo... [popular.info]
Genesis 1:1 (Score:2)
"This article is over 3 months old."
Good Move (Score:1)