Facebook Using Surveys to Improve 'Trustworthy' News, Will It Be Effective?

Facebook is one of the largest social media that has many users ranging from teens to adults and even elderly, founded in february 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg along with Harvard College colleagues and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

Since 2014 and when the elections are in progress, hoax also sprung up massively. Actually this hoax has existed before a long time, But now Hoax again rampant. Starting from wanting to impose the dignity of others, to provoke inter-religion in Indonesia.

Already various ways that are attempted to Facebook to make social media safe from hoax news attacks, ranging from blocking sites that are considered invite spam and hoax. Apparently not able to muffle this hoax so much, then what else will be applied to Facebook to clean up the sources of this hoax news? .

Before discussing the gan / sist, I first want to tell for you all that as for who always volunteer for the sake of keeping the news that trusted and eradicate or infomation hoax news to you all so that no one "eat" info. The volunteers continue to infiltrate the latest info about Hoax like on the Turn Back Hoax page, or you can discuss whether or not a news story on the lifeboat group on Facebook.

What efforts will Facebook up to overcome Hoax?

Facebook has announced it will prioritize news sources that are considered more reliable in its News Feed.

The company said that the social networking community will determine which outlets can be relied upon through the use of user surveys.

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that news content will soon generate about 4 percent of the amount that appears in News Feeds People and down from the previous 5%.

The move is the company's latest effort to quell spreading false news and false propaganda in its social media network.

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As part of the ongoing battle, Twitter also announced on Friday that it has notified 677,775 US-based users who have retweeted, liked or followed Russian bot accounts on the network ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

The change is an attempt to divert key judgments based on the bias and accuracy of Facebook employees, and to its user base.

"We can try to make the decision itself, but it's not something that is convenient for us," Zuckerberg said.

"We are considering asking outside experts, who will take a decision from our hands but will likely not solve the problem of objectivity or we can ask you - the public - and whether your feedback is ranked."

Users will be asked, because sometimes the ads, Whether they know the brand news and whether they believe it.

The theory of Facebook that remains to be tested on a large scale, that while there are many partisan outlets that have readers who trust them, there is a small portion of media companies that the majority of people consider "widely trusted", regardless of their individual inclinations.

"There is too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in today's world," wrote Zuckerberg, who recently announced that his challenge this year is to "fix" Facebook.

"Social media allows people to disseminate information faster than before, and if we do not specifically address this issue, then we finally strengthen it."

The first news ranking system will be tested only for users based in the US, and survey results will not be published.

"This is one of the many signals that go into News Feed ratings," a Facebook spokeswoman told the BBC.

"We do not plan to release the trustworthiness of each publisher because they represent an incomplete picture of how each of the story positions in each person's feed is determined."

As with any algorithm change, be it Facebook or other major web services, there will be some advantages and others that will struggle. Among the winners will likely be a traditional media organization with a long history or presence of a strong broadcast, such as the New York Times or the BBC.

But a growing brand will suffer if the recognition is not as strong, regardless of whether the content is trustworthy or not. For example, the beginning of Buzzfeed as a viral site will almost certainly hamper its growth into a serious news organization if it is subject to ideas that will be proposed by Zuckerberg's team.

Also, it is unclear how trustworthy, special news organizations with smaller readers such as science publications will be treated under this rule, although the head of Facebook Feeds News, Adam Mosseri says that local news will be at least protected.

"We make it easier for people to see local news and information in a special section.

"We will continue to find more local news relevant to where people live."