al they re now holding a vote among users for what sites are most popular. i ll show you this survey, it asks questions like do you recognize the following sites and how much do you trust each site. what? this media company that claims it s not a media company is now holding a popularity contest to decide which news is more credible? now we called facebook and i asked, which news outlets will people be able to vote on in this context? will it be a choice among factual sources, is it new york times versus wall street journal, okay, or is facebook s solution to their fake news problem having people choose between news and fake news or news and opinion. if that s what they re doing, they don t get it. you want to know facebook s answer? so do i. but they declined to send a list of any of the news outlets they re surveying in this fake
126 million people on facebook alone which is we only had 137 million who voted in the election. this is not like an incorrect bill board on the street or a bad article in the newspaper. facebook knows who saw it. not only that, they know every single thing the person saw. they could send me a customized thing to say you engaged with these articles. it s not just articles. it would be groups, it would be events, ads. ads were a tiny piece of it. all the other stuff was much, much more important. the changes that were made last week, we don t have to get into them, but your point is this may be a little bit of miss direction. they may have actually made things worse if they had been in place if they had done this in 2015, it almost certainly would have magnified the russian manipulation. taking legitimate news out of people s news feeds is not going to solve the fake news problem. these things were done mostly out of groups which were actually bad information for p
amount of the content, influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea. crazy. mark, as we ve reported, backtracked on that. and facebook did even hire fact checkers to deal with the fake news problem. but a new report today in the guardian clothe notes that face refuses the disclose the data on the checker. and the fake information is still going viral. that s from someone speaking anonymously from inside facebook. so let s take a breath and let s note the huge contrast here for mark zuckerberg. in turkey, mark found a way to eliminatecensor posts at the government s request. in china mark reportedly has his own engineers innovating new censorship tools as a kind of a menu for a government that hasn t even allowed them in the country yet. and in america, the nation where
fake things true and true things fake. among people who listened to those two conservative leaders, trump probably lost some credibility today. the question is whether he picked up two senate seats which would not exactly be a draw. the senior policy adviser for the reagan and george w. bush administrations. he is the author of the aptly titled, the truth matters. that followed your work and your conservatism for a long time. your view of what we saw today and the centrality from these conservatives about as you emphasize, truth in politics. i m very glad to have them saying what they re saying but they re traveling a path that others like myself have been traveling for 10 or 12 years. and i think that one of the problems that is caused this whole fake news problem, this
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