{"id":25676,"date":"2020-06-04T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25676"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:04:16","slug":"facebook-begins-labeling-posts-from-state-controlled-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25676","title":{"rendered":"Facebook begins labeling posts from state-controlled media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced Thursday that it has started labelling posts from state-controlled media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The labels will first appear on the outlets&#8217;s page before being added to posts on the News Feed over the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisements from the outlets will also start being labeled later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/djmszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwjggrgm_kshlvvmhmjlvplmtftlr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/djmszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwjggrgm_kshlvvmhmjlvplmtftlr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591395066469000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG7EuqYSzMbeFxsn9fHgzAuXX7bsg\">announced<\/a>\u00a0plans for such labels in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re providing greater transparency into these publishers because they combine the influence of a media organization with the strategic backing of a state, and we believe people should know if the news they read is coming from a publication that may be under the influence of a government,&#8221; Facebook&#8217;s head of cybersecurity, Nathan Gleicher, wrote in a blog post Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s definition of state-controlled media was developed in collaboration with experts and organizations in the fields of media, governance, human rights and development.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it will make the determinations based on the funding and structure of media companies, as well as open-source reporting about them.<\/p>\n<p>Outlets determined to be state-controlled will be able to appeal their status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced Thursday that it has&#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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676","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=25676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25677,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676\/revisions\/25677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}