The phrase ‘Digital World’ is creating a buzz in every social media. Yes! Everything is at your fingertips. You have access and can get the information from anywhere at any time. While talking about the information provided by Social Media, relevancy or integrity has a major concern among various Users.
According to the recent Research conducted by Hootsuite. The 3.484 Billion people are active social media users among the total population of 7.676 Billion.
Integrity is the prime ethical concern everyone faces with respect to social media. The Survey conducted in the U.S. revealed that 43% of Social Media Users choose Facebook as the source of news. Customers tend to perplex regarding the information they find here. After a thorough Research & Development, Facebook came up with a strategy 'Remove, Reduce & Inform'. The strategy has been executed since 2016. The strategy involves various processes includes abolishing the contents in violation of its policies, reducing controversial and problematic contents. And providing information to the users to make well-informed decisions about what to click, read and share.
REMOVE
To develop a communication environment that is safe and diverse. And, moreover, to set out what content is permitted or not, Facebook has developed Facebook Community Standards.
Considering the need of the customer to keep informed regarding the recent updates, they initiated a new section on this Community Standards Page. A new feature, Group Quality, also has been implemented by Facebook. This targeting to help admins of Facebook groups to understand better how Facebook enforces its standards.
REDUCE
To reduce unauthentic data or information measures have been introduced to help. A customer would always look forward to the availability of authentic and relevant information. To resolve this issue, Facebook has introduced various measures and Certified fact-checking partners to assess content in 24 languages.
Moving forward, consulting academics, fact-checking experts, journalists, and other organizations would also be used to find new ways to snuff out fake news stories.
INFORM
Information is the processed data that has relevance from Customers as well as from the Developers perspective. Being informed is one of the Customer rights.
To evaluate source Credibility by the Users, various features have been introduced to provide background information. Context Button can exemplify this well.
In the near future, Facebook is set to expand the Context Button to images as well. Existing features are more likely to be enhanced and more features like the Trust Indicators. It will be added soon. This would provide clarity on a news organization's ethics and standards.
MESSENGER
To avoid scammers, Facebook will be bringing its Verified Badge to Messenger. Moreover, they will get more access and control over who can reach them and whom to block. Context Button and Forward Indicator will also be introduced in Messenger to combat the spread of false news.
The evolution of techniques by the scammers is on the rise and Facebook is working on it to keep integrity, trust, and consistency.
In a nutshell, Facebook came up with relevant strategies to combat problematic content. This is an initiative by Facebook to maintain the reliability of data by the customers. It is hoped that these steps would help Facebook as well as the Users to sort out the relevant data.
FAQs
1) Is Facebook Messenger privacy and security warning hype or reason to worry for most people?
Yes. It is. To avoid scammers, Facebook will be bringing its Verified Badge to Messenger. Moreover, they will get more access and control over who can reach them and whom to block.
2) What are the essential changes to Facebook's privacy and data policy?
To develop a communication environment that is safe and diverse, and, moreover, to set out what content is permitted or not, Facebook has developed Facebook Community Standards. Facebook has introduced various measures and Certified fact-checking partners to assess content in 24 languages to make sure the authenticity of data.
3) How does Facebook decide my comment violated community standards?
Facebook came up with a strategy 'Remove, Reduce & Inform' to understand the comment violated community standards or not.
A new feature, Group Quality, also has been implemented by Facebook by targeting to help admins of Facebook groups to understand better how Facebook enforces its standards.
