{"id":54369,"date":"2020-07-27T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/27\/facebook-begins-labeling-but-not-fact-checking-posts-from-trump-and-biden\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:29:48","slug":"facebook-begins-labeling-but-not-fact-checking-posts-from-trump-and-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/27\/facebook-begins-labeling-but-not-fact-checking-posts-from-trump-and-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook begins labeling, but not fact-checking, posts from Trump and Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4221-imgpsh_fullsize_anim.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/21\/tech\/facebook-label-trump-biden\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>After President Donald Trump posted an unfounded claim to&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB&amp;source=story_quote_link\">FB<\/a>)&nbsp;on Tuesday that mail-in voting could lead to a &ldquo;corrupt election,&rdquo; the social network slapped a label on it. But the label did not attempt to fact-check the post as true or false. Instead, it directed users to a government website to learn more about how to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The response is part of Facebook&rsquo;s new policy,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/26\/tech\/facebook-zuckerberg-content-ad-policies\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month<\/a>, to label posts about the November election. In recent days, Facebook has placed the same label beneath a mix of posts from Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, including one from the former vice president calling to &ldquo;vote Donald Trump out this November&rdquo; that does not make any factual assertions about voting.<\/p>\n<p>This new approach has already been criticized by some industry watchers who worry the labels are confusing or could even be viewed as tacit endorsements of the President&rsquo;s controversial posts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This warning seems pretty useless &mdash; it might even seem that Facebook is endorsing what Trump is saying and providing a path for more information,&rdquo; Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickhasen\/status\/1285585850508603394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=113313\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=113313<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Rick Hasen<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Rick Hasen<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4221-imgpsh_fullsize_anim.png\" alt=\"\">CNN: After President Donald Trump posted an unfounded claim to&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;(FB)&nbsp;on Tuesday that mail-in voting could lead to a &ldquo;corrupt election,&rdquo; the social network slapped a label on it. But the label did not attempt to fact-check the post as true or false. Instead, it directed users to a government website to learn more about how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/27\/facebook-begins-labeling-but-not-fact-checking-posts-from-trump-and-biden\/\">Continue reading <span>Facebook begins labeling, but not fact-checking, posts from Trump and Biden<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/27\/facebook-begins-labeling-but-not-fact-checking-posts-from-trump-and-biden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Facebook begins labeling, but not fact-checking, posts from Trump and Biden - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/27\/facebook-begins-labeling-but-not-fact-checking-posts-from-trump-and-biden\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook begins labeling, but not fact-checking, posts from Trump and Biden - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CNN: After President Donald Trump posted an unfounded claim to&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;(FB)&nbsp;on Tuesday that mail-in voting could lead to a &ldquo;corrupt election,&rdquo; the social network slapped a label on it. 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