Facebook Tested a New A.I.-Powered Misinformation Detector Months Before the Election
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It’s unclear whether the platform adopted the new approach Months ahead of the 2020 election, Facebook revealed it had created a better way to identify bad actors on the platform. Published in August 2020, the research details a system Facebook was testing that might seem incredibly simple : Instead of just looking at an account’s posting history or friend list to determine whether that account is a fake or inauthentic account, look at both the friend list and the post history. On (...)