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FACEBOOK HAS TAKEN out a number of advertisements in UK newspapers to raise awareness about fake news.
BBC News reports that the ads are featured in The Times, The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.
They carry a list of things for people to look out for when deciding if a story is real or not, including checking the article date and website address, and making sure the article isn’t actually satire.
A Panorama programme due to be broadcast tonight will show how Facebook played a role in both the election of Donald Trump in the US and the Brexit referendum in the UK last year.
The social media network is under political pressure to tackle fake news ahead of the UK’s general election in June.
Bogus accounts
Last month, Facebook said it had started weeding out bogus accounts by watching for suspicious behavior such as repetitive posts.
The security improvement was described as being part of a broader effort to rid the leading social network of hoaxes, misinformation and fake news by making sure people are who they claim to be.
“We’ve found that when people represent themselves on Facebook the same way they do in real life, they act responsibly,” Shabnam Shaik of the Facebook protect and care team said in a blog post.
Fake accounts don’t follow this pattern, and are closely related to the creation and spread of spam.
Accounts suspected of being bogus are suspended and holders asked to verify identities, which scammers typically don’t do, according to the California-based social network.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has sought to deflect criticism that the social network may have been used to fuel the spread of misinformation that affected the outcome of the 2016 US presidential race and the Brexit referendum.
Contains reporting from - © AFP, 2017
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See, this is what happens when you slag off the red line.
Ha exactly.
Yup… those red liners will be laughing all the way to the post office or the methadone clinic this Wednesday morning wondering just what exactly is this ‘work’ thing that their South Dublin counterparts are so concerned to be missing.
Red Line is South Dublin from Saggart to Houston Station. At least consult a compass when composing your slurs!
Autocorrect thinks it’s in Texas.
Very funny Drew … not.
Drew the south Dubliners have to “work” as you put it to afford the shed loads of cocaine every weekend!
Aye we do…. For taxes purposes though we’re working to afford our ‘columbian overseas foreign aid’ donation.
Running the red line through gang territory has now paid off. Its so used to gun shots puny lightening doesn’t frighten it
Was there not a stabbing on the green line recently????
Another blow in who probably doesn’t have a clue..
There was, my comment was tongue in cheek (written onboard a red line tram)
The new machine gun turret on top will have that sorted .
Funny too, Felix. We might be posting from the same train.
**looks around nervously**
@ Shane Walsh only spotting your comment now:
If using the red line since its inception in 2004 first for school & college, and now to go to work making in excess of 460 trips per year (allowing for annual leave/bank holidays) for the last 6/7yrs qualifies me as a blow in so be it
Good response to my early morning moany reply. Remind me to shake your hand at the Kingswood Stop in the morning ;) ;)
^^^now thats freaky!! :-)
hahahaha :) :) :) Happy Wednesday.
Shussss don’t tell anyone
Threw a fuse in her. Be grand. If she keeps blowing throw a bit of fag paper or a 10 mil bolt in her. Also be grand. Ish.
Its same problem as yesterday. They dont have the skills to repair. Any technical fault and they have to go to the foreign companies that built it. Makes you wonder why they pay local engineers? After last nights investigations they have just madw the problem worse by disabling the whole line.
Fragile wee thing that Luas….
This is obviously God’s way of telling liberal South Dublin to vote No! Subtle, but I get the message.
Not a bad thing, considering that Enda’s gang were lying in wait to ambush the electorate for a vote on something that they dont really give a s**t about.
It’s that Breda O’brien playing with the new testiment weather kit …
It’s running again now
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