For years, I’ve heard the phrase “you can’t believe everything you read”. Though this phrase originally applied to untrustworthy information in print media, in current times it’s most applicable to information shared via social media. Facebook has been at the forefront of this investigation of the spread of false information, which was put on the […]
Read more "Do You Believe Everything You Read?"Amidst a world where social media sites track our every like, post, share and search, the publics’ privacy has never seemed less private. In fact, with the use of big data, bots, artificial intelligence and so on, the line between private and public has never been more blurred. We unknowingly ‘accept’ the terms and conditions […]
Read more "Fighting the Fake"Is the Facebook post you just read authentic news? It’s hard to tell. Start with the source it is coming from. According to Zuckerberg himself, “Some hoaxes can be completely debunked, but a greater amount of content, including that from mainstream sources, often gets the basic idea right but some details wrong or omitted”. Sometimes […]
Read more "Fighting Facebook Fake News"On Wednesday September 5th, Jack Dorsey the CEO of Facebook and Sheryl Sandberg the COO of Twitter testified before the Senate intelligence committee on “Foreign Influence Operations’ Use of Social Media Platforms.” Based on the statement made in the hearing, misinformation in social media, both foreign and domestic, is a huge problem that doesn’t have a simple, […]
Read more "The Social Media Problem"Word Count: 282 An article appeared on my Facebook Newsfeed posted from Forbes with a hyperlink to, “CBS CEO Les Moonves Steps Down and Misses Out on $100M after 6 More Women Come Forward.” The first step I took in authenticating this Facebook post was clicking directly on the post and being redirected to the […]
Read more "Authenticating posts-Charly Stamps"What simply began as a social networking site, Facebook has unfortunately become a breeding ground for fake news. Gone are the days when our timelines were only filled with embarrassing, overly-personal status updates, corny photos, and over-tagging. Instead, our news feeds are being flooded with fake news and clickbait. It’s becoming increasingly different to differentiate […]
Read more "How To Avoid Being Fooled By Your Facebook News Feed"A lot of people think that Facebook has problems, when in reality the world has a Facebook problem. Facebook’s prominence in world affairs has recently stirred a lot of conversation about their responsibility to the truth and to what is right. While these arguments have good intentions, they give Facebook too much credit. Facebook does […]
Read more "The Facebook Problem"My Facebook use peaked when I first joined in 2009. At that time, it was used for almost the sole purpose of letting all the other kids in middle school know exactly what you were doing that day, who you were with, and to “text” or “don’t text.” But now, one scroll through Facebook and […]
Read more "What if Facebook was a Happy Place?"I believe that Facebook has changed a lot over the years. It started as a website where you could talk to your friends online, and now, it’s a space for all kinds of information including the news. It was surprising to me that almost half of all adults in the U.S. (44 percent) get their […]
Read more "What Facebook Could Do About ‘Fake News’ Issues"Facebook has come a long way since my first introduction to it in 7th grade, when the most popular thing to do was “Be a Fan” of relatable pages like “How do my earbuds get so tangled in my pocket, no matter what!” or “Sleeping on the cold side of the pillow.” I tried to […]
Read more "Can Facebook just be fun again?"