Skip to content
Notes from the field

Notes from the field

Facebook and Apple Disagree on How to Curb Fake News for U.S. Midterms

Facebook and Apple Disagree on How to Curb Fake News for U.S. Midterms

It's interesting to see how Apple and Facebook are approaching the problem of "fake news" differently. Facebook is sticking to it's "algorithmic" approach, which i guess would be far more scalable if (and it's a big if) it can be demonstrated to work. Apple's employing more people to review the news that's presented through the hardware/software giant's own apps, teaching us:
1. the scale of the problem facing Facebook's is simply orders of magnitude larger (Apple only curates content from a chosen set of sources, not any joe schmoe writing a blog), and
2. Apple's convinced it can avoid human bias, while Facebook believes it can code it out.
https://rob.al/2lRmILZ
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/facebook-and-apple-disagree-on-how-to-curb-fake-news-for-u-s-midterms?a
Apple News launched a human-curated elections section, sparking a debate about tech companies and automation.

Share this:

  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
2018-07-03

linkedin cross-post

Post navigation

PREVIOUS
Lyft buys the biggest bike-sharing company in the US
NEXT
Asimo Still Improving Its Hopping and Jogging Skills
Comments are closed.

Archives

The standard disclaimer…

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the text belong solely to the me, and not necessarily to the my employer, organization, committee or other group that I belong to or am associated with.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
© 2023 Rob Aleck, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
Go to mobile version