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Facebook Uses Media Fact Checkers to Rank Conservative Users “Untrustworthy”

There were recent reports about China using a ratings system to grade citizens. Now we’re seeing the evolution of something like it online.

And the keys are being held by the media.

According to the Washington Post, Facebook is implementing a new ranking system that will rank users’ trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one. The company claimed that this ranking system is an effort to fight misinformation spread by fake accounts.

What’s the criteria?

Apparently part of it is the media fact checker system that Facebook had previously rolled out that allows the media to silence political dissent under the guise of “fact checking”.

Read the full story from Front Page Mag


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