Facebook to Hire 'Fact Checking' Contractors

Details:Facebook will hire the community reviewers through a third-party contractor calledAppen, which sources, vets, selects and qualifies community reviewers.

According to the report, Facebook will also partner with the polling company YouGov, allegedly to ensure that the pool of community reviewers represent the diversity of people on Facebook.

In particular, its consulted expertslike David Rand, associate professor of management science and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT; Paul Resnick, associate dean for Research and Faculty Affairs at the University of Michigan School of Information and director of the Center for Social Media Responsibility; and Joshua Tucker, professor of politics at NYU and co-director of NYU Social Media and Political Participation lab.

It continues to block publishers from mentioning the name of the alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella, despite his name being tied to a major news story.

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  2. "Given Big Tech's flagrant interference in the 2020 election a steal, out in the open, in front of everyone it's tempting to welcome any regulatory or legal action that might punish them". (January 3, 2021)
  3. "Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Google are waging a massive lobbying offensive in Washington DC to halt the passage of major antitrust legislation". (June 25, 2021)
  4. "Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has written a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, blasting the Facebook CEO and his platform for censoring medical discussion around coronavirus, in particular the censoring of a viral Breitbart News video of a press conference with frontline doctors and a member of Congress discussing responses to the virus". (August 4, 2020)
  5. "The New York Timeshas grudgingly acknowledged the success of right-wing and conservative media on Facebook, worrying that it might indicate a looming Trump victory in November. In Particular, theTimesnotes that Breitbart News posts have been shared 4 million times in the past 30 days, "roughly three times as many as posts from the official pages of every Democratic member of the U.S". (August 28, 2020)
  6. "The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether or not to hear a case brought by Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, alleging that the Masters of the Universe have been discriminating on the basis of viewpoint and coordinating with each other in an anticompetitive manner". (February 16, 2021)
  7. "The official account of the GOP Senate Majority reported that Facebook shut down Republican ads aimed at voters in the upcoming Georgia runoff, on the same day that it passed the National Defense Authorization Act without the repeal of Section 230 requested by President Donald Trump". (January 3, 2021)
  8. "Facebook has restricted the page of Tucker Carlson, the most popular cable news host in the country, smearing the Fox News host as sharing "false news". (September 26, 2020)
  9. "Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) have introduced a bipartisan bill that would strip legal immunities from tech companies that censor users without their consent". (December 10, 2020)
  10. "Facebook fact-checker "Lead Stories" took the social network's system of "fact-checking" to farcical levels earlier this week when it "fact-checked" a critique of itself by the Federalist's Molly Hemingway". (December 9, 2020)
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