The phrase "false contents" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to information or material that is untrue or fabricated. Example: The article was found to contain false contents, leading to its retraction from the newspaper.
Some are finally taking more significant action against online misinformation: Facebook, for example, is currently working on methods for stronger detection and verification of fake news, and on ways to provide warning labels on false content – yet only now that the US presidential election is over.
The claimed mistake could be alethic, consisting in having made at least one judgment with a false content.
It's made it easier to report misleading or false content, demoted fake and sensational posts, and reduced referral traffic to crappy ad-filled sites.
We should have been faster and are working hard to improve our technology and tools to detect and prevent abusive, hateful or false content," a spokesperson said.
The company tells me this is because "fake news" has taken on a life of its own, and "false news" more accurately communicates that it's talking about intentionally false content that tries to be confused with legitimate news.
In making my remarks, my intention was to highlight how we're building artificial intelligence to help us better identify abusive, hateful or false content even before it is flagged by our community.
"In making my remarks, my intention was to highlight how we're building artificial intelligence to help us better identify abusive, hateful or false content even before it is flagged by our community," he added.
In a statement responding to a critical letter sent last month by Myanmar civil society organizations, Facebook conceded: "We should have been faster and are working hard to improve our technology and tools to detect and prevent abusive, hateful or false content".
In addition, the company will devise algorithms based on users' flags of false content to help detect future content likely to be fake, and then remove it. .
It has a dubious track record too, having been used to distribute other demonstrably false content, such as claims that Turkish police for some reason used Vietnam War-era herbicide Agent Orange on protesters during the Gezi Park demonstrations.
