Instagram is taking strides to clamp down on fake news -- though some users have found its efforts may be slightly overzealous straight out of the gate.
Using a combination of feedback from community members and its own technology, Instagram sends posts that are suspected of containing "false information" to independent, third-party fact-checkers. If those fact-checkers confirm the posts are false, they appear in users' feeds obscured by a warning message, Peta Pixel reports, with an option for viewers to see why they have been obscured, and to click through to see the photo or video anyway..
Whereas the warnings are presumably being rolled out to disinvite doctored images whose intent is to spawn harm, photographer Toby Harriman saw the warning pop up on an image from Vancouer-based production company Mix Society. After clicking through the warning, per Peta Pixel, he discovered an innocuous shot of a man standing on...
Using a combination of feedback from community members and its own technology, Instagram sends posts that are suspected of containing "false information" to independent, third-party fact-checkers. If those fact-checkers confirm the posts are false, they appear in users' feeds obscured by a warning message, Peta Pixel reports, with an option for viewers to see why they have been obscured, and to click through to see the photo or video anyway..
Whereas the warnings are presumably being rolled out to disinvite doctored images whose intent is to spawn harm, photographer Toby Harriman saw the warning pop up on an image from Vancouer-based production company Mix Society. After clicking through the warning, per Peta Pixel, he discovered an innocuous shot of a man standing on...
- 1/14/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
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