In fact, human editorial oversight is a key difference between Apple's approach to news aggregation and curation, compared with competitors like Google, Twitter and Facebook — all of which have come under fire for their outsized roles in the spread of information, and, at times, disinformation.
By Dana Priest July 24, 2017 Over the course of Vladimir Putin's time in power, disinformation with a pro-Russia bent has caused European nations to view the media as a strategic asset.
And who better than the editorial page of The New York Times to counter the disinformation put out by the op-ed page of The New York Times.
His surprise enemy at home is the Committee of Soldiers Motherss, a hard-to-harass group that provides casualty figures 10 times greater than Kremlin disinformation.
For a company that at times struggles with filtering disinformation out of its search results, making Discover so prominent might not be a well-timed choice.
TV programs will invite these same pollsters and strategists to pundificate on the predilections of the electorate, and thus--very much like Dick Cheney's quoting Judith Miller's New York Times articles that regurgitated disinformation about Iraq that Cheney had sent her--the cake for a substantial election loss is already being baked.
Albright timed the research project to cover the lead up to the US midterms, which represent the next major domestic test of Facebook's democracy-denting platform — though this time it appears that homegrown disinformation is as much, if not more, in the frame than Kremlin-funded election fiddling.
The anniversary of Roe V. Wade this month is a good time to reflect on this disinformation effort and to take action against it.
The company is also calling for Zuckerberg to "ban all bots, alert the public any and every time users see fake or disinformation, fund fact checkers around the world, and submit to an independent audit to review the scale and scope of fake news".
His cooperation came in fits and starts, and interrogators said they believed at times that he gave them disinformation.
