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Exclusive: @Facebook is hiring part-time contractors via a third-party called Appen.
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) December 17, 2019
They're meant to help FB's fact-checking partners more quickly corroborate or debunk stories that FB's machine learning tools flag as potential misinformation.https://t.co/dSGpkxlAUR
Facebook's doing this because it's come under fire fire for being too slow to identify content as misinformation, but it doesn't want to hire people at Facebook to support fact-checkers for fear that those people could be labeled as biased. https://t.co/JCK9jTduDl
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) December 17, 2019
"Mr Grozoubinski, I've had a look at your resume and you don't appear to have any relevant skills or experience to work as a coder here at @Google..."
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) December 18, 2019
"That's right. I see myself more as representative of the average user..." https://t.co/hvGyryJHEo
Zuckerberg had teased that this was coming 10 months ago > https://t.co/M76xrZXdEG https://t.co/oUEH2LQ2UB
— Alexios (@Mantzarlis) December 17, 2019
Interesting two criteria:
— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) December 18, 2019
- something that means nobody is qualified;
- something that means everybody is qualified. https://t.co/rioPCnNJvN
It isn't often that I can share what I've been working on at Facebook. But I'm very excited that this product -- that I've been working on for a year and half -- is launching!
— Adam Berinsky (@AdamBerinsky) December 17, 2019
https://t.co/7NQorJ0BnI
So Facebook is hiring contractors that will Google potentially false things that are on Facebook? https://t.co/sXYZW8Ak6l
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) December 17, 2019
I am sure this will scale spectacularly well.
— Ed Bott (@edbott) December 17, 2019
And by "spectacularly well," I mean not at all. https://t.co/98ueql2oje
Ah yes. That famous representative Facebook user, entirely free of all biases. https://t.co/rdDd193APG
— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) December 18, 2019
Facebook is hiring part-time contractors who aren't supposed to have specific experience to help with their fact checking https://t.co/4wmTGVt4Mm
— Justin Green (@JGreenDC) December 17, 2019
Facebook is piloting community factcheckers. But
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) December 18, 2019
"Facebook doesn't want to hire anyone who could have any sort of bias" and they're "meant to be representative of everyday Facebook users so they don't have any sort of particular expertise in factchecking"https://t.co/F07oGy0frh
Facebook's new anti-misinformation strategy appears to be paying a group of amateur fact-checkers whose political views are "representative of the Facebook community" to give non-binding recommendations to outside, professional fact-checkers. https://t.co/wfNKbbBDQ0
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 17, 2019
Ah, Appen. I wrote this detail about Appen in a piece for @buzzfeednews two years ago. Appen has a reputation of having one of the lowest hourly wages in the contractor business ($10/hour when I was reporting this story). https://t.co/3RDJeroP6Q https://t.co/ueJQt0xB0H pic.twitter.com/gavo0bkBix
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) December 17, 2019
Facebook Says It Will Not Remove An Ad Falsely Claiming Mitch McConnell Endorses Impeaching Trump - BuzzFeed News https://t.co/GhCbzcJKDt via @GoogleNews
— Kev (@Technocrat21mb) December 18, 2019
Facebook will not remove the ad by leftist activist @adrielhampton - who registered as a California gubernatorial candidate and runs bogus political ads testing Facebook’s policies - falsely claiming @senatemajldr endorses impeaching Donald Trumphttps://t.co/1MKedtqxl2
— Mat Honan (@mat) December 18, 2019
Facebook Says It Will Not Remove An Ad Falsely Claiming Mitch McConnell Endorses Impeaching Trump https://t.co/LzxQTTDYNL
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) December 18, 2019
"It is a massive problem that Trump can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on Facebook. You add that to the fact that he's ability to micro-target ads to reach influenceable groups of people with different messages. This is absolutely weaponized lying." https://t.co/yIOITmJexV
— ?️driel H?️mpton (@adrielhampton) December 18, 2019
Facebook Says It Will Not Remove An Ad Falsely Claiming Mitch McConnell Endorses Impeaching Trump https://t.co/AmUpHQ55mT via @broderick
— John Paczkowski (@JohnPaczkowski) December 18, 2019
"As for how long Hampton intends to keep this up, 'The election is in 2022,' he said." #FAfT https://t.co/yIOITmJexV
— ?️driel H?️mpton (@adrielhampton) December 18, 2019
Facebook is not removing an ad falsely claiming McConnell is endorsing the impeachment of Trump that’s being run by @adrielhampton, who’s running for governor of California to test Facebook’s fact-checking policy https://t.co/q3jzGQULR1
— Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) December 18, 2019
Facebook Says It Will Not Remove An Ad Falsely Claiming Mitch McConnell Endorses Impeaching Trump https://t.co/ZQki1M9qjk
— BuzzFeed Tech (@fwd) December 18, 2019
Facebook Says It Will Not Remove An Ad Falsely Claiming Mitch McConnell Endorses Impeaching Trump https://t.co/XihK9ifMXP via @broderick
— Sarah Mimms (@mimms) December 18, 2019
Facebook consulted with a @UMSI researcher on ways to help expedite its fact-checking process. A new pilot program is set to launch and will leverage part-time contracted "community reviewers" to debunk potential misinformation. Read more via: @axios https://t.co/ldTMTu27h8 pic.twitter.com/aC1ZqtXgt1
— School of Information (@umsi) December 18, 2019
The reviewers are meant to be representative of everyday Facebook users, so they don't have any sort of particular expertise in fact-checking. — @axioshttps://t.co/apSZT2U2QQ
— Bruno J. Navarro (@Bruno_J_Navarro) December 18, 2019
Seems the "part-time fact-checking contractors" will show the world that FB means business. https://t.co/qAYyDfxDX3
— Nomi Prins (@nomiprins) December 18, 2019
Exclusive: Facebook adding part-time fact-checking contractors https://t.co/m0TohT7JHy
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) December 17, 2019
For the thousandth time: you can tell what Facebook gives a shit about by where they spend their money. https://t.co/FC6cRo5v1g
— Chest Rockwell (@donachaidh) December 17, 2019
Facebook adding part-time fact-checking contractors https://t.co/Ye1Teg8Tbn
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) December 17, 2019
Again, not even suggesting any Facebook reporter would have time to analyze or cover it yet. Just suggesting linking to competition rather than Facebook. Here is @CNET @QWongSJ coverage for example. https://t.co/jtDFfuxGbg
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) December 18, 2019
It isn't often that I can share what I've been working on at Facebook. But I'm very excited that this product -- that I've been working on for a year and half -- is launching!
— Adam Berinsky (@AdamBerinsky) December 17, 2019
https://t.co/7NQorJ0BnI
Facebook's new new pilot program "will allow fact-checkers to quickly see whether a representative group of Facebook users found a claim to be corroborated or contradicted": https://t.co/Zjjlh5BSLl #ethics #internet #socialmedia #disinformation #contentmoderation Um...
— Internet Ethics (@IEthics) December 17, 2019
So @Facebook has a new “tool” to stop the spread of misinformation. And what is that, I hear you ask? Well, they’re hiring more contractors to review content that could be false to help third-party fact-checkers https://t.co/NkxFOm6IGI
— Mark Scott (@markscott82) December 18, 2019
Here’s why that won’t work.
<<Cue thread>>
Facebook piloting a program to send potentially false things (except from political candidates) to "a diverse group of community reviewers" before it goes to fact-checkers, to speed up the process https://t.co/JitnrhoFC1
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) December 17, 2019
So Facebook is hiring contractors that will Google potentially false things that are on Facebook? https://t.co/sXYZW8Ak6l
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) December 17, 2019
Oh, hey there, a project about misinformation and crowdsourcing that I started working on in early 2017 finally is public!https://t.co/UobTrlbWDR
— Alex Leavitt, Ph.D. (@alexleavitt) December 17, 2019
and, please make this ‘significant’ quantifiable..
— Baybars Örsek (@baybarsorsek) December 18, 2019
I’m not skilled enough to be an editor or a reporter, but would send that announcement back for more clarification on ‘significant’ and add my comment, “what is significant?” on that Gdochttps://t.co/ulbqNcGblU pic.twitter.com/fShSHJXJdH
This is a pretty big announcement from @Facebook https://t.co/9aVIxae9ga
— meedan (@meedan) December 17, 2019
"a new pilot program built to leverage the Facebook community. It will allow fact-checkers to quickly see whether a representative group of Facebook users found a claim to be corroborated or contradicted"
So it begins. Social Media’s removing of Political Ads,: The problem is they are only removing the ones that don’t fit their Agenda.https://t.co/JM0IUNYde1
— Kismet (@mekismet) December 19, 2019
What's good for the goose is good for the turtle! Sooner or later, a whiny Republican will sue Facebook over one of these ads, and maybe they'll reconsider allowing blatant lies for money https://t.co/QzfVhbxjcr
— Ho Ho Ho Pro Quo (@ampersine) December 19, 2019
Exclusive: Facebook adding part-time fact-checkers to root out misinformation https://t.co/CdcF8JWEHO pic.twitter.com/5IjNry0Y90
— Rich Tehrani (@rtehrani) December 18, 2019