{"id":50433,"date":"2018-07-20T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/20\/facebooks-pledge-to-eliminate-false-information-is-itself-fake-news-judd-legum\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:38:56","slug":"facebooks-pledge-to-eliminate-false-information-is-itself-fake-news-judd-legum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=50433","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#039;s pledge to eliminate false information is itself fake news | Judd Legum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is trying to have it both ways: claiming credit for fighting fake news but insisting that misinformation be distributed on its platformThe production values are high and the message is compelling. In an 11-minute mini-documentary, Facebook acknowledges its mistakes and pledges to \u201cfight against misinformation\u201d.\u201cWith connecting people, particularly at our scale, comes an immense amount of responsibility,\u201d an unidentified Facebook executive in the film solemnly tells a nodding audience of new company employees. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jul\/20\/facebook-pledge-to-eliminate-false-information-is-itself-fake-news\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook&#039;s pledge to eliminate false information is itself fake news | Judd Legum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is trying to have it both ways: claiming credit for fighting fake news but insisting that misinformation be distributed on its platformThe production values are high and the message is compelling. In an 11-minute mini-documentary, Facebook acknowledges its mistakes and pledges to \u201cfight against misinformation\u201d.\u201cWith connecting people, particularly at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}