the algorithm of The Security Check of Facebook is himself left to take the game of “fake news” . False information circulating Tuesday on the social network indicated that a strong explosion occurred the same day in a place not specified in the thai capital, Bangkok. The on-site users have received a notification inviting them to indicate their “friends” if they were “safe” after this non-event.
An hour later, the detected error, the application has been disabled. The incorrect information was, in reality, an old article from the Bangkok Inform referring to the explosion of a motorcycle bomb in 2015 near the hindu temple Erawan .
A new algorithm supposed to be more reliable…
This is not the first time that the application loses the north. Last march, she had asked a large number of users in the world to declare if they were alive after an attack… in Pakistan . The error thai would, however, not the same origin.
Since November, the activation of the Safety Check no longer depends on a decision of the teams of Facebook but to an algorithm, which analyses the information flow within communities of users.
… and is less subjective
When an emergency – natural disaster, terrorist attack, mass murder, etc. – is detected by identification of key words, the information is sent to a third-party company in charge of checking the information. If the threat is confirmed, Facebook offers its users the ability to activate their “Safety Check’”. If users ignore these notifications, it is that the threat is probably not so pressing.
This new method located must allow you to measure with more precision of focus is gained imminence and extent of the danger. A tel process also has the benefit of making it less subjective to the decision to activate or not this tool. The u.s. company was accused of “two weights two measures” when it had voluntarily initiated the application during the terrorist attacks in Paris but not for those of Beirut and Baghdad.
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