Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/24/facebook-leaves-fake-nancy-pelosi-video-on-site

by kadendogthing • 7 years ago

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scohesc• 7 years ago

I really don't think it's up to these companies to decide what and what not to keep on their platforms. I can understand that they're a private company and therefore they can make their own decisions about what they want, but I think something that people don't realize is the sheer amount of power these social media websites have over society and culture. Especially when you see how many social media companies Facebook actually owns (facebook, instagram, and whatsapp afaik)

These companies could, in an instant, remove someone from public view. Alex Jones for an example. It's absolutely HORRIBLE that he made the comments that he did about the Sandy Hook shootings, but just because the dude is an absolute nut job doesn't mean he should have the right to talk about what he wants to the public to be taken away. It seems pretty contradictory that companies like Facebook preach that their entire platform is to connect people and communicate with each other, but if you don't communicate like they want you do, they'll hide behind their terms of service and ban you for whatever reason.

I know the userbase of facebook has been declining, but they still have a massive number of people who get their news from their algorithms. They could just start pushing more "pro-russia" propaganda news to their users and conveniently blame it on "the algorithm" (a blatant excuse to absolve responsibility) or "we're a private company, we can push whatever we want to our users".

With a company as large and as widespread as Facebook, which also quite obviously has ulterior motives, they can't be trusted with regulating who says what on their massive platform.

Maybe if we broke Facebook up into pieces instead of having this monolithic mega-corporation whose sole goal is to harvest all your data whether you're a user or not, we wouldn't be talking about this in the first place.

salemh• 7 years ago

From what I’ve read, the claim that it is “altered” is due to it being a compilation video. Which I think is disingenuous to say it is fake.”

But any Trump news is very hard to parse regardless.

EarthMephit• 7 years ago

Its in the article: Its been digitally altered to give the impression she is slurring her words

Tempest1981• 7 years ago

From a Gizmodo article:

"... the video will appear alongside a related article from a third-party fact-checking website (which, ostensibly, will point out that the video is indeed altered—though no such context appears directly on the video page itself.)"

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-scrambles-for-a-middle-ground-o...

Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters

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