Ryan Knutson

Yeah, like the Associated Press, like PolitiFact. Reuters, I believe, was for a while in there, Snopes. So these were all entities that were basically supposed to just find viral content that was false and flag it. And that would serve two purposes. One is it would notify users who saw the post that there were at the very least some serious reservations about its accuracy.

Yeah, like the Associated Press, like PolitiFact. Reuters, I believe, was for a while in there, Snopes. So these were all entities that were basically supposed to just find viral content that was false and flag it. And that would serve two purposes. One is it would notify users who saw the post that there were at the very least some serious reservations about its accuracy.

Yeah, like the Associated Press, like PolitiFact. Reuters, I believe, was for a while in there, Snopes. So these were all entities that were basically supposed to just find viral content that was false and flag it. And that would serve two purposes. One is it would notify users who saw the post that there were at the very least some serious reservations about its accuracy.

And the second thing is that it was going to get used by Facebook to sort of slow down the spread of things. Didn't mean it would go away or, you know, they'd take it down. It just meant that, like, they weren't going to actively promote it. And so this was, like, I think a big part of the company's efforts to deal with fake news on its platform was this initiative.

And the second thing is that it was going to get used by Facebook to sort of slow down the spread of things. Didn't mean it would go away or, you know, they'd take it down. It just meant that, like, they weren't going to actively promote it. And so this was, like, I think a big part of the company's efforts to deal with fake news on its platform was this initiative.

And the second thing is that it was going to get used by Facebook to sort of slow down the spread of things. Didn't mean it would go away or, you know, they'd take it down. It just meant that, like, they weren't going to actively promote it. And so this was, like, I think a big part of the company's efforts to deal with fake news on its platform was this initiative.

There's two ways to answer that, right? The first one is that, no, it never worked great. The second answer is that it was all the platform had, and it was therefore invaluable. Fact checks were always slower than virality.

There's two ways to answer that, right? The first one is that, no, it never worked great. The second answer is that it was all the platform had, and it was therefore invaluable. Fact checks were always slower than virality.

There's two ways to answer that, right? The first one is that, no, it never worked great. The second answer is that it was all the platform had, and it was therefore invaluable. Fact checks were always slower than virality.

By the time a fact checker got around to like publishing something saying like, this is false, here are the citations, usually that thing had gotten most of the traffic it was going to get.

By the time a fact checker got around to like publishing something saying like, this is false, here are the citations, usually that thing had gotten most of the traffic it was going to get.

By the time a fact checker got around to like publishing something saying like, this is false, here are the citations, usually that thing had gotten most of the traffic it was going to get.

And the lie travels a lot faster when it's running on, you know, a social media platform's recommendation system, right?

And the lie travels a lot faster when it's running on, you know, a social media platform's recommendation system, right?

And the lie travels a lot faster when it's running on, you know, a social media platform's recommendation system, right?

It still did... This was the core of the defense. Yeah.

It still did... This was the core of the defense. Yeah.

It still did... This was the core of the defense. Yeah.

adjudicating this stuff was like really difficult and also whatever a human might decide about things like that trying to get an algorithm to make a similar decision is like was like nearly impossible so it was this i think a very frustrating process for particularly for a bunch of very tech-minded people um because these were not problems that lent themselves to like

adjudicating this stuff was like really difficult and also whatever a human might decide about things like that trying to get an algorithm to make a similar decision is like was like nearly impossible so it was this i think a very frustrating process for particularly for a bunch of very tech-minded people um because these were not problems that lent themselves to like