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Fb's fact-checking procedure is simply too opaque to understand if it is running

Fb is not clear sufficient about its fact-checking initiative to understand if it is running and it must ramp up the operation, says a brand new file
Facebook isn't transparent enough about its fact-checking initiative to know if it's working and it needs to ramp up the operation, says a new report

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  2. "The UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Facebook £500,000 for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the maximum possible under the rules at the time". (November 5, 2018)
  3. "In response to proposed laws requiring payment to news publishers, Facebook says it will ban Australian users sharing news content, which may be a test case for global regulation to follow". (September 3, 2020)
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  5. "People who are prone to comparing themselves with others spend more time on Facebook, and the social network is considering changes that might remind people to avoid such comparisons". (May 28, 2020)
  6. "Artificial intelligence built by Facebook has learned to classify images from 1 billion Instagram photos. The AI used a different learning technique to many other similar algorithms, relying less on input from humans". (March 4, 2021)
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