{"id":20710,"date":"2019-12-17T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20710"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:47:41","slug":"facebook-tests-community-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20710","title":{"rendered":"Facebook tests community fact checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Tuesday announced plans for a pilot program where community reviewers will evaluate content that is flagged as potentially containing misinformation to assist third-party fact checkers.<\/p>\n<p>Product manager Henry Silverman explained in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dthszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwdddtrg_hhfvccbqbzvchwwqwnns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dthszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwdddtrg_hhfvccbqbzvchwwqwnns.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1576735446583000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHcIcHXqAFjzQy5kRlVaBlUPz_zmA\">blog post<\/a>\u00a0that having a representative group of users look over content will provide &#8220;additional context&#8221; for the third-party fact checkers that will ultimately determine if posts are false.<\/p>\n<p>The reviewers will be hired as contractors through Facebook partners and make no final decisions on content.<\/p>\n<p>The program will &#8220;allow fact-checkers to quickly see whether a representative group of Facebook users found a claim to be corroborated or contradicted,&#8221; Silverman wrote Tuesday, accelerating the fact checking process.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook partnered with survey firm YouGov to determine requirements for selecting community reviewers to ensure they represent the &#8220;diverse viewpoints&#8221; of the social media giant&#8217;s user base.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be tested in the U.S. &#8220;over the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Tuesday announced plans for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20711,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710\/revisions\/20711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}