Facebook's Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health

[DrLove]

Conspiracy theories and COVID disinformation is killing people. Our president enables and amplifies these nuts. Step up Facebook. A bridge too far to believe Donald will change and cut it out with the lies - But STEP UP Republicans!

• Facebook is failing to keep people safe and informed during the pandemic.
  • Global health misinformation spreading networks spanning at least five countries generated an estimated 3.8 billion views on Facebook in the last year.
  • Health misinformation spreading websites at the heart of the networks peaked at an estimated 460 million views on Facebook in April 2020, just as the global pandemic was escalating around the world.
  • Content from the top 10 websites spreading health misinformation had almost four times as many estimated views on Facebook as equivalent content from the websites of 10 leading health institutions, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  • Only 16% of all health misinformation analysed had a warning label from Facebook. Despite their content being fact-checked, the other 84% of articles and posts sampled in this report remain online without warnings.
• Report reveals top ‘superspreaders’ of health misinformation on Facebook.
  • From RealFarmacy, one of the biggest health misinformation spreading websites, to GreenMedInfo, a website that presents health misinformation as science.
  • On Facebook, public pages act as one of the main engines for sharing content from websites spreading health misinformation, accounting for 43% of the total estimated views.
  • We identified 42 Facebook pages as key drivers of engagement for these top health misinformation spreading websites. They are followed by more than 28 million people and generated an estimated 800 million views.
• There is a two-step solution to quarantine this infodemic that could reduce belief in misinformation by almost 50% and cut its reach by up to 80%.
  • Step 1: Correct the Record by providing all users who have seen misinformation with independently fact-checked corrections. This could decrease belief in misinformation by an average of almost 50%.
  • Step 2: Detox the Algorithm by downgrading misinformation posts and systematic misinformation actors in users' News Feeds, decreasing their reach by up to 80%.
• Facebook has yet to effectively apply these solutions at the scale and sophistication needed to defeat this infodemic, despite repeated calls from doctors and health experts to do so.

LOTS Moar:

Facebook's Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health

Avaaz uncovers health misinformation spreading networks with an estimated 3.8 billion views in the last year - and shows how to quarantine this infodemic

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[Gdjjr]

Facebook itself is a threat to the public- coupled with the herd STUPIDity cell in humans who refuse to think for themselves it is THE most threatening aspect of this so-called society- Zuckerberg is a twerp punk who has gained NO credibility in the intellectually honest dept- as ALL political hacks do. They are a bane (virus) on humanity.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Conspiracy theories and COVID disinformation is killing people. Our president enables and amplifies these nuts. Step up Facebook. A bridge too far to believe Donald will change and cut it out with the lies - But STEP UP Republicans!

• Facebook is failing to keep people safe and informed during the pandemic.
  • Global health misinformation spreading networks spanning at least five countries generated an estimated 3.8 billion views on Facebook in the last year.
  • Health misinformation spreading websites at the heart of the networks peaked at an estimated 460 million views on Facebook in April 2020, just as the global pandemic was escalating around the world.
  • Content from the top 10 websites spreading health misinformation had almost four times as many estimated views on Facebook as equivalent content from the websites of 10 leading health institutions, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  • Only 16% of all health misinformation analysed had a warning label from Facebook. Despite their content being fact-checked, the other 84% of articles and posts sampled in this report remain online without warnings.
• Report reveals top ‘superspreaders’ of health misinformation on Facebook.
  • From RealFarmacy, one of the biggest health misinformation spreading websites, to GreenMedInfo, a website that presents health misinformation as science.
  • On Facebook, public pages act as one of the main engines for sharing content from websites spreading health misinformation, accounting for 43% of the total estimated views.
  • We identified 42 Facebook pages as key drivers of engagement for these top health misinformation spreading websites. They are followed by more than 28 million people and generated an estimated 800 million views.
• There is a two-step solution to quarantine this infodemic that could reduce belief in misinformation by almost 50% and cut its reach by up to 80%.
  • Step 1: Correct the Record by providing all users who have seen misinformation with independently fact-checked corrections. This could decrease belief in misinformation by an average of almost 50%.
  • Step 2: Detox the Algorithm by downgrading misinformation posts and systematic misinformation actors in users' News Feeds, decreasing their reach by up to 80%.
• Facebook has yet to effectively apply these solutions at the scale and sophistication needed to defeat this infodemic, despite repeated calls from doctors and health experts to do so.

LOTS Moar:

Facebook's Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health

Avaaz uncovers health misinformation spreading networks with an estimated 3.8 billion views in the last year - and shows how to quarantine this infodemic

secure.avaaz.org

You like censorship as long as it perpetuates your lies...

 

[Gdjjr]

You like censorship as long as it perpetuates your lies...

Who are you addressing?

 

[Marion Morrison]

Wanna see something scary?

 

[Billy_Bob]

You like censorship as long as it perpetuates your lies...

Who are you addressing?

My bad.. The OP..

 

[Marion Morrison]

People do not realize FB and Google crawl all their contacts, everyone they communicate with.
Google especially with their phones. They crawl everyone in your contact list and gather data, being a private entity, they keep it forever!

 

[Darkwind]

As it has ever been the case, those who are trying to seize power under less than honorable means will have always attacked those trying to get the truth out as gossipers in misinformation. The OP is a classic case of this.

 

[Gdjjr]

As it has ever been the case, those who are trying to seize power under less than honorable means will have always attacked those trying to get the truth out as gossipers in misinformation. The OP is a classic case of this.

It's not just seizing power- the STUPID project their worst personal traits onto others believing they are making their own light shine brighter-

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Facebook itself is a threat to the public- coupled with the herd STUPIDity cell in humans who refuse to think for themselves it is THE most threatening aspect of this so-called society- Zuckerberg is a twerp punk who has gained NO credibility in the intellectually honest dept- as ALL political hacks do. They are a bane (virus) on humanity.

You seem a bit confused as to what censorship is. Hint: it is not censorship when a private company controls what they broadcast.

 

[Darkwind]

Facebook itself is a threat to the public- coupled with the herd STUPIDity cell in humans who refuse to think for themselves it is THE most threatening aspect of this so-called society- Zuckerberg is a twerp punk who has gained NO credibility in the intellectually honest dept- as ALL political hacks do. They are a bane (virus) on humanity.

You seem a bit confused as to what censorship is. Hint: it is not censorship when a private company controls what they broadcast.

Correct. It is perjury on their part. They said, under oath to the US Government, that they would be an open platform of ALL people.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It is perjury on their part. They said, under oath to the US Government, that they would be an open platform of ALL people.

Haha... I don't think that one is going to stick, Colombo. Anyone can still get on there and post.

 

[Gdjjr]

You seem a bit confused as to what censorship is. Hint: it is not censorship when a private company controls what they broadca

You seem a lot confused- I said nothing about censorship, STUPID.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

You seem a bit confused as to what censorship is. Hint: it is not censorship when a private company controls what they broadca

You seem a lot confused- I said nothing about censorship, STUPID.

Sorry.... all white wingers look the same to me...

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Conspiracy theories and COVID disinformation is killing people. Our president enables and amplifies these nuts. Step up Facebook. A bridge too far to believe Donald will change and cut it out with the lies - But STEP UP Republicans!

• Facebook is failing to keep people safe and informed during the pandemic.
  • Global health misinformation spreading networks spanning at least five countries generated an estimated 3.8 billion views on Facebook in the last year.
  • Health misinformation spreading websites at the heart of the networks peaked at an estimated 460 million views on Facebook in April 2020, just as the global pandemic was escalating around the world.
  • Content from the top 10 websites spreading health misinformation had almost four times as many estimated views on Facebook as equivalent content from the websites of 10 leading health institutions, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  • Only 16% of all health misinformation analysed had a warning label from Facebook. Despite their content being fact-checked, the other 84% of articles and posts sampled in this report remain online without warnings.
• Report reveals top ‘superspreaders’ of health misinformation on Facebook.
  • From RealFarmacy, one of the biggest health misinformation spreading websites, to GreenMedInfo, a website that presents health misinformation as science.
  • On Facebook, public pages act as one of the main engines for sharing content from websites spreading health misinformation, accounting for 43% of the total estimated views.
  • We identified 42 Facebook pages as key drivers of engagement for these top health misinformation spreading websites. They are followed by more than 28 million people and generated an estimated 800 million views.
• There is a two-step solution to quarantine this infodemic that could reduce belief in misinformation by almost 50% and cut its reach by up to 80%.
  • Step 1: Correct the Record by providing all users who have seen misinformation with independently fact-checked corrections. This could decrease belief in misinformation by an average of almost 50%.
  • Step 2: Detox the Algorithm by downgrading misinformation posts and systematic misinformation actors in users' News Feeds, decreasing their reach by up to 80%.
• Facebook has yet to effectively apply these solutions at the scale and sophistication needed to defeat this infodemic, despite repeated calls from doctors and health experts to do so.

LOTS Moar:

Facebook's Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health

Avaaz uncovers health misinformation spreading networks with an estimated 3.8 billion views in the last year - and shows how to quarantine this infodemic

secure.avaaz.org

You like censorship as long as it perpetuates your lies...

You seem a bit confused as to what censorship is. Hint: it is not censorship when a private company controls what they broadcast.

 

[Gdjjr]

Sorry.... all white wingers look the same to me...

Like I said- STUPID tries to put out anothers light believing it makes his shine brighter- it don't. Even being an only bulb in a closet.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Sorry.... all white wingers look the same to me...

Like I said- STUPID tries to put out anothers light believing it makes his shine brighter- it don't. Even being an only bulb in a closet.

Wow, you got up early and started sucking on the trump juice right off the bat today... I think you need a nap.

And nobody is stopping you from starting a platform for white wing crybabying.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Sorry.... all white wingers look the same to me...

Thankfully, there are still some people who are not so extremely simple-minded and partisan, though.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Thankfully, there are still some people who are not so extremely simple-minded and partisan, though.

It was a joke. The loudmouthed wannabe bullies are always the most sensitive little sissies... every time...

 

[Gdjjr]

Wow, you got up early and started sucking on the trump juice right off the bat today... I think you need a nap.

And nobody is stopping you from starting a platform for white wing crybabying.

Learn to read, STUPID

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