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Facebook adds labels identifying state-controlled media

Facebook will quickly upload labels to information shops owned or another way managed by way of a central authority, marking that data as, if no longer essentially false or unreliable, no less than value taking into consideration the foundation of. Those so classified can also be banned from purchasing commercials beginning this summer time. The corporate announce…
Facebook will soon add labels to news outlets owned or otherwise controlled by a government, marking that information as, if not necessarily false or unreliable, at least worth considering the origin of. Those so labeled will also be banned from buying ads starting this summer. The company announce…

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  3. "If AI-powered robots are ever going to help us out around the house, they're going to need a lot of experience navigating human environments". (June 14, 2019)
  4. "The latest research out of Facebook sets machine learning models to tasks that, to us, seem rather ordinary but for a computer are still monstrously difficult. These projects aim to anonymize faces, improvise hand movements and perhaps hardest of all give credible fashion advice". (November 11, 2019)
  5. "It's a bit strange to hear that the world's leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many competing priorities". (May 20, 2019)
  6. "The digitally face-swapped videos known as deepfakes arent going anywhere, but if platforms want to be able to keep an eye on them, they need to find them first. Doing so was the object of Facebooks Deepfake Detection Challenge, launched last year". (June 12, 2020)
  7. "Training an artificial intelligence agent to do something like navigate a complex 3D world is computationally expensive and time-consuming". (January 21, 2020)
  8. "If we're going to map the world, we're not going to do it with ever-greater volumes of elbow grease. There's just too much work to do". (July 24, 2019)
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