Meta sets up special team to deal with rampant misinformation around Ukraine.
Meta sets up special team to deal with rampant misinformation around Ukraine
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| Meta has implemented measures to fight misinformation on all its platforms. Credit: Drew Angerer / Getty Images |
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp's umbrella company Meta says it has taken a number of measures to fight misinformation and to protect its platforms against cyberattacks amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"The situation in Ukraine is devastating. Our teams at Meta have implemented a number of measures to keep our platforms and our users in the region as safe as we can," wrote Meta's VP of global affairs Nick Clegg in a Twitter post Thursday.
According to Clegg, Meta has established a Special Operations Center "staffed by experts and native speakers," that will respond in real time to remove misinformation, hate speech, or content that incites violence on its platforms. Meta will also label content from state-controlled media, as well as content that its fact checkers have rated false.
Finally, Meta's cybersecurity teams are monitoring for coordinated attempts to abuse its platform, wrote Clegg.
Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Facebook, also said the platform has launched a new feature in Ukraine, allowing users to lock their profiles in order to provide an extra layer of privacy and security. While their profile is locked, people who aren't these users' friends won't be able to download or share their profile photo, or see posts on their timeline.
Facebook previously deployed a similar tool in war-affected areas, including in Afghanistan in 2021.
On Thursday, Twitter also posted a set of guidelines that should help protect users from cyberattacks. In the thread, the company explains how to choose a strong password, set up two-factor authentication, or delete your account, among other guides.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by a number of cyberattacks, including attacks on the websites of Ukrainian banks and government. The European Union recently formed a rapid-response cybersecurity team to help defend Ukraine from such attacks. There have also been numerous reports of misinformation on Facebook and Twitter, and other platforms.
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Why would he do it for Ukraine he wouldn’t do it for America?! (This is in no way bashing the Putin tragic war.)
ReplyDeleteMeta goes against my community standards! Echo chamber algorithms, this man is the poster boy of misinformation.
ReplyDeletePretty sure that team is operating already.
ReplyDeleteShot by the other side.
ReplyDeleteYou mean, to help your Russian buddy?
ReplyDeleteSo Meta thinks they're in charge of information. As if they know everything going on there. The arrogance of Facebook is mind boggling...
ReplyDeleteso he must have fact-checkers on the ground, in the hot area? ;)
ReplyDeletePut a Fox in charge of the henhouse?? Lol! Thats rich.
ReplyDeleteHe's so corrupt
ReplyDeleteWhy didn’t/don’t you clean out the anti science antiVax lies?
ReplyDeleteMore like meta is working on propaganda about the conflict
ReplyDeleteOh, another special Markie Mark team? Oh, that'll fix it...or at least differ attention until people forget.
ReplyDeleteThis is a disgusting lie. For the past two days, I've been reporting to Facebook support anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian posts in which Putin's subservient puppets wish death on people. Each of them, according to Facebook, "does not break community rules."
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Deletehttps://youtu.be/w8zbcWczEuo
ReplyDeleteAnd for RIAnru?
ReplyDeleteAnd why should I believe polo head
ReplyDeleteBLAH BLAH they never actually do anything. Why do media outlets repeat this propaganda? Is Mashable journalism or publicity?
ReplyDeleteThat’s what you do BEFORE the war starts
ReplyDeleteDet låter som en mycket rimlig idé!!
ReplyDeleteSure they have.
ReplyDeleteThat means the deep state has an official narrative that is full of lies and they don't want anyone to question those lies.
ReplyDeleteI agree 100%
DeleteMeta and Facebook's opinion checkers are a bunch of hacks. I would not trust that group of twits for all the gold on earth. I will do my own research and come to my own conclusions.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right. If I said this I would be in facebook jail again.
DeleteLike we're supposed to believe anything that Suckerburg has anything to do with O.O If he wants to fight misinformation, he'd better start with his "fact checkers" ;D ;D
ReplyDeleteHere we go Meta going silence the truth and fact checkers going put us in FB jail
ReplyDeleteYa right The Truth. They wouldn't know what that is even if it hits them with a stick.
ReplyDeleteMeta does NOT have a monopoly on the truth. Freedom of speech and sharing of ideas, even if unpopular or ultimately untrue, is a cornerstone of a democratic society. The more we suppress and censor these viewpoints, the more fascist our society actually becomes.
ReplyDeleteGood. Zuck, do something honorable for a change.
ReplyDeleteThe arrogance and Ego of these Meta people is out of control. There credibility is so bad that I actually believe the exact opposite of what their censorship claims are.
ReplyDeletehttps://giphy.com/gifs/annoyed-eye-roll-judge-judy-Rhhr8D5mKSX7O
May we allow the truth, whole truth, to be seen and shared. ❤
ReplyDelete#Ukrainians ask #NATO to bring their forces to #Ukraine ! Close the sky! Give shelter from the sky!
ReplyDelete#CutoffRussiafromSWIFT
MORE CENSORSHIP FOR THE LACK OF LEADERSHIP, TIMELY ACTION.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is Facebook is not about misinformation. It about blocking the truth. And allowing what they want you to see. They are politicians tool to hide truth from the people. It also why Facebook is dying
ReplyDeleteyes I agree with you
DeleteThey admitted it not facts. Fact checkers are opinions of Facebook people. They hide the truth. For there opinions
ReplyDeleteProven in court. Facebook fact checkers are liars. Hiding truth from people not misinformation
DeleteAnd where do they base their facts?
ReplyDeleteAre the fact checkers neutral? If not then obviously this will only be a reason to censor information and boost your country’s agenda.
Amen to that!!
Deletefact checkers....people with opinions and no facts
DeleteWhen Meta talks about fighting misinformation, you mean to say they’re fighting to hide the truth.
ReplyDeletepretty much
DeleteLet’s see if they can ever tell the truth!! This will be interesting
ReplyDeleteYou mean to fit it's opinions and not the truth. Just like they do with every other country
ReplyDeleteI’m sure it won’t be biased!
ReplyDeleteSo why didn't he do that in Canada. Can't believe anything from Facebook, beta
ReplyDeleteWhatever he's pushing
He will set up a team, to spread more BS and give a narrative that he and his political cronies want
ReplyDeleteI saw on Unilad that Facebook is suppressing and censoring any news outlet with ties to the Kremlin.
ReplyDeleteexplain the views .
Deletethat is a conversation i would love to have, but i just dont have enough pieces to even speculate on what is really going on. and honestly im not sure i even trust unilad but its their report not mine.
DeleteHe we go with state and big tech censorship
ReplyDeleteIf it’s anything like the supposed misinformation around the vaccines, then I wouldn’t trust a word Meta says.
ReplyDeleteOr, so they can create their own misinformation
ReplyDeleteBut it can't As long as they are mostly based in America,
ReplyDeleteSo a picture of praying Ukrainians is “false information” are you kidding me, I got fact checked for a simple picture of praying Ukrainians
ReplyDeleteMeta is pushing a dying platform. People are tired of their discretionary policies
ReplyDeleteThe best thing they could do is put the word "Satire" at the top of every Facebook page.
ReplyDeleteI hope vlad is paying for it, as facebook is doing really well lately.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally "opinion"-checkers supporting the libprog narrative the vast majority of the time, unless the narrative gets exposed as false. Then the censoring gets changed. If it was based on facts, it would have been countering the narrative.
ReplyDeleteYesterday friends in other countries posted an article in Spanish stating Russia had invaded the Ukraine. Meta labelled it as false information.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it did.... Even though it doesn't have a clue what is true or not...they just make anything they don't agree with disappear
ReplyDeleteYah bring it, you wouldn't want your selected leader to actually take responsibility for world political outcomes!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure meta would delete any negative comments about our countries infamous leader. Even if they are true.
It was hilarious. Meta stoping misinformation. Its it what meta do.
ReplyDeleteSo when they tag it as False we will know it is true!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, Because you do such a fine job in the usa...
ReplyDeleteMeta needs to set up a team to spread the TRUTH, not SUPPRESS it!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteToo late, you have blood on your hands, you apply free speech rules by American standards to billions that do not know the concept of free speech. Allowing them to make comments criticizing America because they can’t criticize theirs. This is your responsibility not US law makers.
ReplyDeletePoland has already put laws in place fining for for every time they censor the polished public
ReplyDeleteJust Count on biased coverage because that’s how they roll
ReplyDeleteHow do they define "misinformation"
ReplyDeleteThey would have to cancel FB. They are MISINFORMATION.
ReplyDeleteWon't save Mark Zuckerberg or Sir Nick Clegg from impending war crime and other tribunals. Over 17 years Facebook and Meta have been the most useful tool for Putin and other enemies of democracy. Neither Mark Zuckerberg, his merry "libertarian" echochamber ad$ immoral band of tech bros or those at Jack's twitter should be allowed to monetize or allow interference in or to influence democracy or day to day lives of 1 person let alone billions of people in the real world or the #metaverse to enrich themselves whilst sitting on a claimed apolitical fence ignoring wrong and right evildoers and good for profit. Enough. Facebook and twitter through their algo fed rabbit holes have brainwashed a generation into calling those who fight Communism Communists and those who's ancestors fought and fight Nazis, Nazis. A greater threat to democracy than Vladimir Putin and his ilk who they enabled to interfere in ������������ elections. Enough.
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When are they going to do that about elections?
ReplyDeleteHe meant to say "deal with the facts". He wants to remove the facts so everyone is misinformed.
ReplyDeleteYou mean they set up a special team to make sure only FB beliefs are heard
ReplyDeleteHow about the misinformation from politicians and the media. Deal with that. Not censor us.
ReplyDeleteU mean set up teams to take down the truth like every thing else they don't agree on
ReplyDeleteI have success plan for meta; a complete comprehensive track. But there may name changes and scheffles!!!
ReplyDeleteSo blocking the truth again then meta.
ReplyDeleteWhen has he decided to deal with false information.? He is the master of misinformation
ReplyDelete:D :D :D :D this is true
DeleteFacebook showed no concern during the last 2 US presidential elections. Ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteDon't do it! (All information is missinformation)
ReplyDeleteThat means no truth will come out
ReplyDeleteAnd they will do just as miserable a job on that as they have with everything else they have monitored
ReplyDeleteamusing considering how many russian bots are on facebook
ReplyDeleteWhat about the misinformation Trudont says. He lies to our faces and you allow it. ;|
ReplyDeleteHere goes their narrative again
ReplyDeleteYeah that’s all we need . More censorship
ReplyDeleteI can’t wait for TruthSocial and say goodbye to Facebook!
ReplyDeleteTheir "Fact-checkers" are are just opinion editors according to lawsuits against them ;D
ReplyDeleteAs if Zukeberg cares or has high morals
ReplyDeleteMeta, the trusted name in information... what a laugh ;D ;D
ReplyDeleteIt's not your job to do that, Meta! As if your company wasn't tanking already.
ReplyDeleteJust stay away from that crisis … it’s not business and from the past your fact checkers don’t know what they are checking unless you send to ground zero to get the facts
ReplyDeleteThis from the same 'fact-checkers' who can only get liberal agenda items posted?
ReplyDeleteMeaning “ they are trying to hide the truth from being seen”!
ReplyDeleteSo what? He stands with Russia?
ReplyDeleteTruth being hidden again...
ReplyDeleteSo we can expect to see more of it then?
ReplyDeleteLies for a cover up. What is really up Zuck?
ReplyDeleteWell maybe if Facebook wasn't so worried about money...
ReplyDeletethe First to spray lies is Meta/Facebook number one.
ReplyDeleteThe bearers of truth and right ;D ;D ;D
ReplyDeleteAll they do is "misinform". ;D
ReplyDeleteAnd what makes anyone think that Meta isn’t putting misinformation out there!
ReplyDeleteHe has to make money some how.
ReplyDeleteJust curious how do you know what mis- information is???
ReplyDeleteas if they have proven to be good judges of fake info what a joke
ReplyDeleteFB fact checkers are as bad as Putin.
ReplyDeleteHe's done. Good.
ReplyDeleteFacebook is quick to flag a post and say it’s not true and give you 90 day Facebook jail,,,,but you never hear them apologizing for getting it wrong, they just quietly removed the tag as I have seen
ReplyDeleteMisinformation or information that Zuckerberg don't agree with
ReplyDeleteProbably could email the remaining users not many left.
ReplyDeleteAhhhhhh....poor Meta.....if you don't agree with them or have a different opinion, they'll just label you.....
ReplyDeleteI want to know what he is afraid of???
ReplyDeleteAnd yet you are the supporting act in "The Great Hack". You And your company couldn't lay straight in bed.
ReplyDeleteCensoring the war too!? O.O Anyone who believes his facts needs a slap!
ReplyDeleteI’m going to FB jail the video I’m seeing SMFH
ReplyDeleteYeah I bet. Wow you mean only let out what you want us to hear.
ReplyDeletein other words there hiding the truth
ReplyDeleteYou mean hide the truth ;)
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