This week I chose to write about a facebook post created by Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, and contains his thoughts on how Facebook should handle fake news and explains the issues of doing so. The post is a little old but still gets across some points about my essay topic. Though normally a facebook post would not be a very good source of information I feel that using a post made by the company CEO is a reliably enough source of information regarding the company. Though many of the specifics only relate to what facebook is doing about fake news the more broad topics addressed in the post address the underlying ethical issues about fake news and why it is difficult to police.
Zuckerberg’s post does an outstanding job addressing the my paper’s core topic, expressing how people both want the stories they read to be accurate and relate to them but also do not want to be limited on what they post. I especially liked this quote: “The problems here are complex, both technically and philosophically. We believe in giving people a voice, which means erring on the side of letting people share what they want whenever possible. We need to be careful not to discourage sharing of opinions or to mistakenly restrict accurate content. We do not want to be arbiters of truth ourselves, but instead rely on our community and trusted third parties” (Zuckerberg, Mark). This quote in particular essentially explains the entire ethical problem fake news creates. Nobody wants to be deceived but when limits are placed on what people are allowed to say or post where does it end. The post also list what facebook is currently working on to help stop the spread of fake news including: Stronger detection, Easy reporting, Third party verification, Warnings, Related articles quality, Disrupting fake news economics, and user feedback. Most of these countermeasures are work in progress or updated versions of systems already in place and Zuckerberg himself is aware that many of these systems may not work in detecting and deterring fake news stories. Zuckerberg, Mark. “A lot of you have asked what we're doing about misinformation..." Facebook. N.p., 18 Nov. 2016. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.
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AuthorIan Kindall a CD major emphasizing in Game Design Archives
May 2017
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