Facebook shirks responsibility, says experts can't be trusted

Found on CNet News on Saturday, 20 January 2018
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The man whose mission it is, this year, to fix Facebook would prefer you to do it for him.

Facebook will ask some questions about whether you think a certain publication is trustworthy, and then it will look at all the data it's collected from respondents.

Zuckerberg prefers to cede responsibility to Facebook's so-called community because it means the company itself doesn't have to take a meaningful stance.

Here is Zuckerberg saying that, well, we could have appointed a panel of experts who might have actual knowledge of this misinformation stuff but, nah, we'll ask anyone who'll answer our surveys.

It's simply cheaper to crowdsource it and let the "community" censor itself. Not only can FB save money, but in case anything goes wrong, it can blame the users.