Along with the post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his own thoughts on the issue, stating: «With any changes we make, we must fight to give all people a voice and resist the path of
becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.
He says Facebook will look for new ways to stop the spread of fake news, but he also argues that «we must proceed very carefully» and that Facebook must be «extremely cautious about
becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.»
He says Facebook will look for new ways to stop the spread of fake news, but he also argues that «we must proceed very carefully» and that Facebook must be «extremely cautious about
becoming arbiters of truth ourselves.»
But as Facebook seeks to fight the scourge of fake news without necessarily
becoming the arbiter of truth itself, its best bet may be to expose a range of opinions about a topic and hope people understand the most outlandish (and viral) takes might not be worth reading.
Not exact matches
On it, «subjective perception and experience
become the sole
arbiter of truth,» as my colleague Sara Mead wrote, and «we are left with the... forces
of emotion, sentiment, and affinity to guide our judgments and decisions.»
Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, ABC News, and AP will help Facebook make good on four
of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it
becoming «the
arbiter of truth.»