Social Media and Google Takes Action Against Fake News Creators
Google, Facebook, and other social media websites have decided to make campaign against “fake
news” creators. They want to secure their platforms from foreign governments,
which are deploying misleading content on their sites and are spreading threat
level among social media users.
According to experts, the threat level is high on social media platforms. It is the bad impact of some culprits, who use such platforms for spreading threats for varied things.
According to experts, the threat level is high on social media platforms. It is the bad impact of some culprits, who use such platforms for spreading threats for varied things.
Reportedly,
many Russian actors have used social media sites for posting photos to influencing
2016 elections. Although, it is found that Russia is the source spreading false
information about elections over social channel like Facebook and Search Engine
like Google. They are trying to combat hoaxes and distribute negative
impression about them.
Reportedly,
in December Google has launched a set of features which enables users to point
out or flag false content, stories, photos, etc., if, they are ambiguous and
shows negative impressions on viewers.
Similarly,
Facebook has also made changes in its algorithm and started to track negative
remarks, impressions, stories, content, etc., posted by culprits through their
personal profiles.
Google
has turned strongly to ban unauthorized news channels, which are posting wrong news
or misleading content on the search engine. Besides, the giant also tracks
false news, which are ranking lower in the index or contains wrong information
about topic. All are being tracked strictly by Google.
On
the other end, Facebook also wants to clear about its platform that it is not
going to entertain fake news creators, false stories, and content, which are
spreading notorious image about anything or give wrong information in the
society for any campaign. The company will track all wrongs strongly and will
ban the creators too.
In
the report, Facebook, Twitter, and Google have not commented about their coordination
with the U.S. intelligence agencies regarding their campaigns. Still, Facebook
has not given any confirmation that it is going to cooperate with government
cyber security firms to track forged content on its site and protect social
media channels to be used as open source to spread wrong information about anything
to the world.
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