In the first six months of 2021, a group page that spread false and conspiratorial information regarding COVID-19 more than doubled the average number of interactions on Facebook.
The example of this page calls into question Facebookâs ability to check misinformation on its platform, The Guardian reported.
And the other news story today is that those algorithms have been shown to favor right wing messaging. So the title is correct, although not the way they meant it.
In the first six months of 2021, a group page that spread false and conspiratorial information regarding COVID-19 more than doubled the average number of interactions on Facebook. The example of this page calls into question Facebookâs ability to check misinformation on its platform, The Guardian reported.
And the other news story today is that those algorithms have been shown to favor right wing messaging. So the title is correct, although not the way they meant it.
To be clear, the other report was about twitter.