Hours after Donald Trump swore as president, Facebook users disseminated a false claim that immigration and customs fulfillment pay generosity for reports of undocumented people.
“Breaking – Ice presumably Read the message On the page called NO NO NO FILTER, who is looking for the truth, adding: “Cash.”
Check your fact. Reuters Both other checks were debunked, and Facebook added labels to messages that warn that they contain false information or missing context. The ice has a tip but said it does not offer cash.
This springMeta plans to stop working with facts checks in the US to indicate false content that misleads, company said on January 7. And if such a publication, like ice, will become viral, the spread pages can earn a cash bonus.
In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also said the company had removed or gained automated systems that reduce false information. Meanwhile meta is Reimbusion of the program This paid the bonuses to the creators for content based on views and interaction, potentially pouring the accelerator on the appearance of the false messages he conducted. Currently, a new monetization program on Facebook is invited, but meta. plans to make it widely available this year.
Bottom line: Probably the revival of false false stories on Facebook, some of them are funded by Meta, according to former professional Facebook Hoaxsters and a former Meta Data scientist who worked on trust and safety.
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Propublica has identified 95 pages on Facebook, which regularly place headlines designed to attract interaction- and often put political units. Pages, most of which are managed by people abroad, a total of more than 7.7 million followers.
After the Meta inspection, she said she had removed 81 pages for ruled by fake accounts or incorrectly represented himself by American, placing about politics and social problems. Treis Clayton, the Meta press -secretary, refused to answer specific questions, including whether any pages are right to the company’s viral content program.
Pages collected by PROPBLICA offer a sample of those that can be ready for cash.
Meta made unleashed viral hoaxes made for money to the top priority for Almost ten yearsHe calls this content “worse” with one leader. Meta has Policy against the payment of content.But this rule will be insignificant if the company stops working with them. Already 404 media found out that Foreign spammers earn payments The use of deceptive content of AI-Zegented, including images of exhausted people designed to create emotions and interaction. Such content rarely check the facts because it does not confirm.
With the removal of the facts in the US “What protection against viral hoaxes for profit?” Jeff Allen said, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Non -profit and former Meta Data scientist.
“The systems are designed to enhance the most disassembled and incitement,” he added.
In an exchange on Facebook Messenger, the head of the disconnection of the truth, shared by the false ice, told Propublica that the page was fined so many times because he shared false information that the meta would not allow her to make money in accordance with the current rule. The page is managed by a woman based in the Southern US, which made anonymity because she said she had threatened with her posts. She said the news about the facts’ check was “great information”.
Clayton noted that the standards of the Meta community and the content team are still active and once again confirmed the company’s statement on January 7 that it is working to prevent its rules from being “exceeding” by banning or submitting content.
Meta changes note the significant cancellation of the company’s approach to moderation in false and deceptive information, refurbishing marking or reducing content as a form of censorship. “It’s time to get back to our roots around the free expression on Facebook and Instagram,” – In his message said Zuckerberg. His position reflects Elon Musk’s approach after the acquisition of Twitter, now X, in 2022. Musk made a sharp reduction of the company’s trust and security team, ” restore thousands suspended accounts Including and outstanding neo -Nazi And posted notes on community that allow users to add context through notes, added to the tweets as a key platform system to indicate false and mislead the contents.
Said Zuckerberg Meta will replace the facts check and some automated systems in the US version of the community notes system. A is January 7 Update on the Metropheter page He said the company “still may reduce the distribution of a certain content of the hoax, the spread of which creates a particularly poor user experience or product (such as certain commercial hoaxes”).
Clayton did not specify whether there will be reports with notes that will be eligible for monetization. He submitted links to academic documents that tell in detail how the facts’ check programs such as community notes may be effective at identification misinformation. building confidence among users and address Imagination of prejudice.
Investigation PROPUBLICA 2023as and as Reporting with BloombergIt turned out that community notes X could not effectively resolve the misinformation about Israeli-Homas conflict. Reporting with BBC and Agency France-Presse They showed that X users who share false information have earned thousands of dollars thanks to the CONTRACT Monetization program, which also rewards high interaction.
Keith Coulman, Vice President X Produce, previously stated propublica that analysis of the community’s notes on Israeli-Hamas conflict did not include all relevant notes, and he stated that the program “People will be useful in the world, on a political political range “.
Allen said it takes time, resources and supervision to increase the multi -skinned facts. He said the Meta’s decision breaks the facts before giving a new approach to prove himself risky, he said.
“In theoretically, we could have a program that was as effective, if not more effective than the facts’ verification program,” he said. “But to exclude all these things before you have notes about the community certainly feels that we will clearly have a moment with small fences.”
Before Facebook began to disassemble content at the end of 2016, American fake news and spammers based in Northern Macedonia And elsewhere they earned viral hoaxes that deepened political divisions and played people’s fears.
One American, Jestin Color, led a network of websites that earned money in the news of the Laeki, almost ten years, including the shameful and false viral header since 2016 “FBI agent who is suspected of Hillary’s email leaks found in obvious murder -exity. ” Previously he told NPR What he launched sites as a way “penetrate into the echo alt-right”. The color said he earned five digits a month from the places he worked in his spare time.
When people clicked on the links on stories in their news, they landed on the following ads, which brought a profit for COLER. It has become a tougher business -model since Meta Link story is less noticeable on Facebook in Recent years.
The new Facebook Publishers’ Payment Program directly for viral content can unlock fresh revenue flow for Hoaxsters. “This is still the same formula to get up. It seems like it can just go back as long as the night,” Coler said in a telephone interview with Propublica. He said he left the Facebook Goax business many years ago and would not return.
In January, Propublica made a list of pages that previously referred to the location of the hoax and false content and discovered dozens more through the search for domains and contents. The pages are located false headlines designed to burn out disputes, for example, “Leah Thomas admits:” I cheated to translate to expose how trusting left “, and” Elon Musk announced that MSNBC has purchased for $ 900 million to put end to toxic programming ”. Musk’s headline was paired with the image of AI generation that contains a contract with the MSNBC logo. It created more than 11,000 reactions, shares and comments.
According to Facebook, most pages are managed by US accounts, including Northern Macedonia, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. Many of these pages use AI images to illustrate their fictional headlines.
One pages abroad network is connected to the SpaceXMania.com site, which is funded by an advertising site filled with hooks about hoaxes, for example, “Elon Musk publicly resists the bion:” Stop pretending it is a country. ” SpaceX Fanclub, the largest on the Facebook page, has almost 220,000 followers and denotes its content as satire. One of the latest messages was a laundered image with a sign that said, “There are only 2 2 hollows, and banned affiliates from women-view sports.”
The page and conditions of SpaceXMania.com states that it belongs to Funky Creations LTD, the United Kingdom Companies registered with Muhammad Shavakat, a Pakistani citizen. Propublica has sent questions to the site and received an email signed by Tim Lawson, who said he was a US -based American that works with a checker. (PROPUBLICA could not find a person on this title in search of public records based on the information he submitted.)
“Our work includes the analysis of the latest trends and high-profile news related to celebrities, and its formation in such a way that it appeals to a specific conservative audience and extremely right groups that tend to believe in certain stories,” the e-mail reads.
Lawson said they earn $ 500 to $ 1500 a month from the web ecked, and more than half of the traffic comes from people who click on Facebook links. According to Lawson, the pages are currently not registered in the Facebook monetization program.
Spacexmania’s pages defined by PROPBLICA have recently been offline. Lawson denied that they had been removed met, and said he had deactivated the pages “from some security reasons.” Meta abandoned the comment.
It remains to learn how the Goax page operators will take place when the Meta algorithmic reversals are fixed, and the US facts test stops. But some Facebook users will already use the weakened fences.
Shortly after Zuckerberg announced the changes, people spread the fake screenshot of the Bloomberg article, the title: “A spark of electric penis Zuckerberg may be responsible for the La fires.”
“The community’s note: the truth is proven,” one of the commentators wrote.
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