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New York (CNN Business)One of the companies that Facebook hired to fact-check posts on its platform will propose a change to Facebook's policy allowing politicians to run ads containing falsehoods, CNN Business has learned.

Lead Stories, one of the fact-checking organizations hired by Facebook (FB) after the 2016 election to help curb the platform's misinformation problem, will propose that fact-checkers vet ads from politicians and that those fact-checks then be reviewed by a new nonpartisan blue-ribbon panel.

Lead Stories will make the proposal at a meeting for Facebook's fact-checkers at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters next week, Alan Duke, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lead Stories, told CNN Business Thursday.

"There is an urgent need for a fair method to identify egregiously false political ads in 2020," Duke, himself a former CNN journalist, said. "Our experience as fact checkers shows me that too many people are too fast to fall for disinformation."

Lead Stories is one of six fact-checking organizations Facebook works with in the United States. When a link or Facebook post is deemed false by the fact-checkers, clarifiying information is added to it and it is "downranked" on Facebook, meaning it should be seen by less people.

Name sounds familiar...

Oh, wait:

Quote from: benjipwns on October 15, 2019, 05:41:55 PM

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During Tuesday’s debate, the DNC will use a software tool called Trendolizer to track trending disinformation. Trendolizer — think TweetDeck but with lots of fancy graphs — scrapes data from social media and across the internet to surface hidden content that is on the cusp of going viral. Its “Hotness” filter alerts users when something new is about to take off. If it’s potentially damaging misinformation about a Democratic candidate, DNC Tech flags it for its “counter-disinformation contact” on the affected campaign and recommends that they reach out to one of the third-party fact-checkers that Facebook relies upon—such as The Associated Press, Poynter, or FactCheck.org.

Quote from: benjipwns on October 16, 2019, 01:09:59 AM

wait a minute...
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2017/trendolizer-wants-to-be-the-tweetdeck-for-fake-news/
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For users to get the most out of the tool, however, he thinks users will have to take the time to build source sets that are relevant to the areas they want to monitor. “People need to know what they are looking for,” he said.

This is a key challenge of debunking fake news: You never really know where the next big viral story will come from next. Inaccurate claims by public figures come from more predictable places like speeches, TV interviews, press briefings, Twitter. Viral hoaxes, on the other hand, can come seemingly from nowhere.

The debunking site Snopes has also tested Trendolizer. Founder David Mikkelson said that “in general, fact-checkers do need tools that will help them spot misinformation faster.”
https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/lead-stories-is-debunking-misinformation-starting-to-trend-on-social-media/s2/a701180/
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The small team behind Lead Stories, a website highlighting trending stories on social media, moved towards debunking popular articles online a couple of months ago.

Maarten Schenk, who developed Trendolizer, the search tool powering Lead Stories, spoke to Journalism.co.uk about his process of finding these articles and looking for red flags that might point out they have no basis in fact.

Trendolizer, which is backed by Alan Duke and Perry Sanders, tracks between 300,000 and 400,000 links per day, assessing the number of likes they receive per hour to determine their popularity.
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Lead Stories has been linked to as a source of debunks by the BBC and BuzzFeed.

At this stage, access to Trendolizer is priced at request, although a network of websites by Schenk, such as StoryTide or Trump Tide, publish links to the top 30 stories on a number of topics at any given time.

He is also hoping to find new partners for Trendolizer, to help expand its reach. "If we get 500 likes, we haven't made a dent in the story," he said.

Quote from: benjipwns on October 16, 2019, 01:12:41 AM

wait even more...
https://tech.eu/news/distractify-trendolizer/
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U.S.-based Distractify, one of those digital media startups that are all about making content go as viral as possible (à la Upworthy, Viral Nova and BuzzFeed), has made a small acquisition.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/lead-stories/
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History

Founded in 2015, Lead Stories is a fact checker and hoax/rumor debunker that uses the International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers’ code of principles as a guide for all fact checking. According to their about page “Lead Stories is mainly written by Maarten Schenk and Alan Duke. Maarten is based in Europe (Belgium) while Alan is in the United States of America (California). Administrative and legal affairs are handled by Perry R. Sanders of Sanders Law Firm in Colorado Springs.”

More from the about page: “Since February 2019 we are actively part of Facebook’s partnership with third party fact checkers. Under the terms of this partnership we get access to listings of content that has been flagged as potentially false by Facebook’s systems or its users and we can decide independently if we want to fact check it or not. In addition to this we can enter our fact checks into a tool provided by Facebook and Facebook then uses our data to help slow down the spread of false information on its platform. Facebook pays us to perform this service for them but they have no say or influence over what we fact check or what our conclusions are, nor do they want to.”

Funded by / Ownership

According to their about page Lead Stories LLC is a Colorado company formed by Maarten Schenk (Belgium), Alan Duke (California), Perry R. Sanders (Colorado) and John C. Goede (Florida). The company is self-funded with no outside investors and relies on advertising revenue and license fees for the use of the Trendolizer™ engine and is also funded with revenue derived from Facebook’s third party fact checking partnership.

Just because you're crazy doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #43688 on:** October 31, 2019, 04:54:34 PM »

What did Ilhan do/say now?
Something that got Armenians mad apparently.

team filler · « **Reply #43689 on:** October 31, 2019, 04:58:34 PM »

she said the kardashian sext tape was trash all armenians deserve to be genocided over it

benjipwns · « **Reply #43690 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:00:26 PM »

Quote from: OnlyRegret on October 31, 2019, 04:54:34 PM

What did Ilhan do/say now?
Something that got Armenians mad apparently.

Voted "present" on a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, then said her problem with it was merely the timing:

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Omar said in a statement Tuesday that while she believes accountability is “paramount” for human rights abuses, including genocide, such acknowledgments should not be “used as cudgel in a political fight.” She pointed to the slave trade and genocide of American Indians as examples of atrocities that receive too little recognition. She later defended her vote on Twitter, reiterating that she acknowledges the World War I-era Armenian genocide and that her concern was “not with the substance of this resolution.”

“My issue was with the timing and context. I think we should demand accountability for human rights abuses consistently, not simply when it suits our political goals,” said Omar, a champion of Palestinian rights on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “My focus has and will always be to make sure our foreign policy is consistent, coherent and my votes will as well.”

agrajag · « **Reply #43691 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:07:06 PM »

(catturd was benji the entire time)

team filler · « **Reply #43692 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:12:38 PM »

benj has many cat fetishes

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #43693 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:14:51 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on October 31, 2019, 05:00:26 PM

Quote from: OnlyRegret on October 31, 2019, 04:54:34 PM
What did Ilhan do/say now?
Something that got Armenians mad apparently.
Voted "present" on a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, then said her problem with it was merely the timing:
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Omar said in a statement Tuesday that while she believes accountability is “paramount” for human rights abuses, including genocide, such acknowledgments should not be “used as cudgel in a political fight.” She pointed to the slave trade and genocide of American Indians as examples of atrocities that receive too little recognition. She later defended her vote on Twitter, reiterating that she acknowledges the World War I-era Armenian genocide and that her concern was “not with the substance of this resolution.”

“My issue was with the timing and context. I think we should demand accountability for human rights abuses consistently, not simply when it suits our political goals,” said Omar, a champion of Palestinian rights on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “My focus has and will always be to make sure our foreign policy is consistent, coherent and my votes will as well.”

hot take: #alllivesmatter'd it

team filler · « **Reply #43694 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:15:39 PM »

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1190013808892211201

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #43695 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:24:41 PM »

Quote from: filler on October 31, 2019, 05:15:39 PM

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1190013808892211201

benjipwns · « **Reply #43696 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:30:30 PM »

why she wanna bring up everybody's dirty laundry all the time, Kamala, Saudi Arabia, etc.

we all make mistakes Tulsi, jeez!

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #43697 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:37:43 PM »

She better easy up when it's 1 on 1 debates with King Ernie.

benjipwns · « **Reply #43698 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:40:27 PM »

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on October 31, 2019, 05:37:43 PM

She better easy up when it's 1 on 1 debates with King Ernie.

What? He's not going to the Democratic VP nominee.

benjipwns · « **Reply #43699 on:** October 31, 2019, 05:45:52 PM »

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/31/politics-nude-video-katie-hill

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By the time I woke up on Wednesday morning, the tweet had almost 100,000 likes. I felt something in me burst like a bubble. I drafted a post on Facebook to share something I had only ever told my closest friends – I cared so deeply about this issue because it was my story, too.

I was only 19, and desperate for a roommate when I met the man who would go on to get me very drunk, film me without consent and release the evidence.

I am 32 now and I can still feel the sensation of how it felt to have my world crumble around me. My boyfriend left me. I was forced out of the online community where I’d found a home. I was utterly, hopelessly alone. I even contemplated killing myself, especially as this man threatened to show my parents the video.

He made DVDs and sent me a copy.

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And it’s really, really about the fact that nudes are an expected part of 21st century romance. In the dark teenage drama Euphoria on HBO, the main character explains this beautifully. Exchanging naked photos and snaps is just how many young people build intimacy in a digital world that increasingly lacks it.

It is not enough to tell women in their 20s and 30s that they just shouldn’t send nudes. A great number of us already have. We shouldn’t have to feel shame that we trusted someone, that we wanted to feel closer to them. Or that we weren’t given a choice.

Sharing someone’s private photos without their consent is a violation of their privacy and their trust. It’s wrong, and the people who do it should be held accountable for their actions.

The United States should follow in the footsteps of the many countries that have made the sharing of revenge porn a federal crime. But in the nation of Brock Turner and Brett Kavanaugh, substantial reform doesn’t seem likely soon.

What we can do now is tell our stories. Of how we’ve been hurt, our trust violated. We can keep talking about it. We can leak our own nudes.

kingv · « **Reply #43700 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:10:55 PM »

Katie Hill really is laying it on thick for someone who was sleeping with their campaign staffer.

I guess since Bill Zclinton didn’t deserve impeachment for Monica Lewinsky, we have just decided this particular abuse of power is just A-OK?

benjipwns · « **Reply #43701 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:14:00 PM »

Quote from: kingv on October 31, 2019, 06:10:55 PM

Katie Hill really is laying it on thick for someone who was sleeping with their campaign staffer.

I guess since Bill Zclinton didn’t deserve impeachment for Monica Lewinsky, we have just decided this particular abuse of power is just A-OK?

That column is just referencing her, it's not by Katie Hill.

And Bill Clinton wasn't impeached for Monica Lewinsky, WHERE IS LEAD STORIES AT WHEN I NEED THEM?!?

benjipwns · « **Reply #43702 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:14:51 PM »

Oh, lol, that column is by:

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Ashley Fairbanks is the creative director of Julian Castro’s presidential campaign.

He has a creative director for his campaign?

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #43703 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:30:43 PM »

Vote for me, the good twin.

-Julian Castro 2020

Nintex · « **Reply #43704 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:34:57 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on October 31, 2019, 06:14:51 PM

Oh, lol, that column is by:
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Ashley Fairbanks is the creative director of Julian Castro’s presidential campaign.
He has a creative director for his campaign?

You don't?

benjipwns · « **Reply #43705 on:** October 31, 2019, 06:40:43 PM »

After weeks of fundraising for my exploratory committee, I never launched my campaign.

I was offered a judicial position instead.

STREET. JUSTICE. Check your local Trash Thread listings.

benjipwns · « **Reply #43706 on:** October 31, 2019, 07:21:47 PM »

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Veteran national security journalist Catherine Herridge is joining CBS News – leaving Fox News after 23 years. Herridge is the second longtime Fox News journalist to leave the organization this month. Shep Smith announced his resignation from the network on October 11.

Herridge will be a CBS News senior investigative correspondent based in Washington, D.C., and will begin her new role in November.

"CBS News has always placed a premium on enterprise journalism and powerful investigations," Herridge said in a statement. "I feel privileged to join a team where facts and storytelling will always matter."

Nintex · « **Reply #43707 on:** October 31, 2019, 07:37:06 PM »

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1190035492500316161

tfw President Biden continues the war on Vietnam

agrajag · « **Reply #43708 on:** October 31, 2019, 09:03:44 PM »

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1190062056654999552

"Hahahahaha..... no, I had my henchmen take care of him."

Boredfrom · « **Reply #43709 on:** October 31, 2019, 09:12:21 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on October 31, 2019, 07:37:06 PM

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1190035492500316161

tfw President Biden continues the war on Vietnam

Why are you posting ProTrump Twitter accounts?

benjipwns · « **Reply #43710 on:** October 31, 2019, 09:24:36 PM »

Quote from: Boredfrom on October 31, 2019, 09:12:21 PM

Why are you posting ProTrump Twitter accounts?

I see you don't read this thread regularly.

Boredfrom · « **Reply #43711 on:** October 31, 2019, 09:29:29 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on October 31, 2019, 09:24:36 PM

Quote from: Boredfrom on October 31, 2019, 09:12:21 PM
Why are you posting ProTrump Twitter accounts?
I see you don't read this thread regularly.

That is true, but I actually asking something I’m already asked before jus to egg on Nintex being a closeted Trumptard.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #43712 on:** October 31, 2019, 09:33:29 PM »

Quote from: Boredfrom on October 31, 2019, 09:12:21 PM

Quote from: Nintex on October 31, 2019, 07:37:06 PM
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1190035492500316161

tfw President Biden continues the war on Vietnam

Why are you posting ProTrump Twitter accounts?

what makes you think that's a pro Trump account

Boredfrom · « **Reply #43713 on:** October 31, 2019, 09:44:31 PM »

Quote from: Stro on October 31, 2019, 09:41:42 PM

Quote from: Boredfrom on October 31, 2019, 09:29:29 PM
Quote from: benjipwns on October 31, 2019, 09:24:36 PM
Quote from: Boredfrom on October 31, 2019, 09:12:21 PM
Why are you posting ProTrump Twitter accounts?
I see you don't read this thread regularly.

That is true, but I actually asking something I’m already asked before jus to egg on Nintex being a closeted Trumptard.

We must have different definitions of closeted.

Is a transparent closet.

thisismyusername · « **Reply #43714 on:** October 31, 2019, 10:26:47 PM »

Quote from: shosta on October 31, 2019, 09:46:42 PM

I would appreciate it if you all could stop quoting nintex because it circumvents my ignore list. thank you.

So quote Nintenchild more, got it.

Tripon · « **Reply #43715 on:** November 01, 2019, 12:02:29 AM »

https://twitter.com/NicoleSganga/status/1189991562769584130

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #43716 on:** November 01, 2019, 08:55:20 AM »

agrajag · « **Reply #43717 on:** November 01, 2019, 09:18:38 AM »

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1190126347173056513

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #43718 on:** November 01, 2019, 09:20:02 AM »

The whites are at it again.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #43719 on:** November 01, 2019, 09:35:20 AM »

That's a good photo for "guess the state". I went with South Carolina.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #43720 on:** November 01, 2019, 09:37:17 AM »

AOC sending out bernie fundraising emails.

wrapitup

Brehvolution · « **Reply #43721 on:** November 01, 2019, 10:05:18 AM »

Quote from: Nintex on October 31, 2019, 07:37:06 PM

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1190035492500316161

tfw President Biden continues the war on Vietnam

Everyone non-conservative knows he's talking about the Paris climate accord.

benjipwns · « **Reply #43722 on:** November 01, 2019, 12:07:18 PM »

new Iowa poll, Biden again in fourth, Beto again draws 0:

Quote from: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/politics/iowa-poll-warren-biden.html

Warren 22, Sanders 19, Buttigieg 18, Biden 17, Klobuchar 4, Harris 3, Yang 3, Steyer 2, Gabbard 2, Booker 2

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #43723 on:** November 01, 2019, 12:30:06 PM »

Warren just fucked up by putting out a plan that says "no new taxes"

what a ditz.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #43724 on:** November 01, 2019, 01:02:47 PM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #43725 on:** November 01, 2019, 01:06:16 PM »

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on November 01, 2019, 12:30:06 PM

Warren just fucked up by putting out a plan that says "no new taxes"

what a ditz.

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Clarification Nov. 1, 2019

While middle class Americans would no longer pay health premiums or copays under Elizabeth Warren's proposal and would also not pay any new taxes to replace those costs, they would pay taxes on whatever extra take-home pay might result.

Ya wow, what a screw up.

james · « **Reply #43726 on:** November 01, 2019, 01:09:54 PM »

Quote from: shosta on November 01, 2019, 12:42:58 PM

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on November 01, 2019, 12:30:06 PM
Warren just fucked up by putting out a plan that says "no new taxes"

what a ditz.
There's some seriously slick accounting going on in this new plan.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: BERNIE OR BUST BABY

agrajag · « **Reply #43727 on:** November 01, 2019, 01:57:33 PM »

no taxes but yes taxes.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #43728 on:** November 01, 2019, 02:01:36 PM »

Quote from: Brehvolution on November 01, 2019, 01:06:16 PM

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on November 01, 2019, 12:30:06 PM
Warren just fucked up by putting out a plan that says "no new taxes"

what a ditz.

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Clarification Nov. 1, 2019

While middle class Americans would no longer pay health premiums or copays under Elizabeth Warren's proposal and would also not pay any new taxes to replace those costs, they would pay taxes on whatever extra take-home pay might result.

Ya wow, what a screw up.

To be fair, noone is gonna get any extra pay out of this.

james · « **Reply #43729 on:** November 01, 2019, 02:08:08 PM »

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on November 01, 2019, 02:01:36 PM

Quote from: Brehvolution on November 01, 2019, 01:06:16 PM
Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on November 01, 2019, 12:30:06 PM
Warren just fucked up by putting out a plan that says "no new taxes"

what a ditz.

Quote
Clarification Nov. 1, 2019

While middle class Americans would no longer pay health premiums or copays under Elizabeth Warren's proposal and would also not pay any new taxes to replace those costs, they would pay taxes on whatever extra take-home pay might result.

Ya wow, what a screw up.

To be fair, noone is gonna get any extra pay out of this.

With 45% unemployment under the Warren regime, people will be begging to pay taxes

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #43730 on:** November 01, 2019, 02:12:29 PM »

Make Mexico pay for it.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #43731 on:** November 01, 2019, 02:50:14 PM »

TAX THE RICH AND KILL THEM

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #43732 on:** November 01, 2019, 02:51:33 PM »

Who is supporting bootyguy, idgi

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #43733 on:** November 01, 2019, 02:59:29 PM »

Quote from: CatsCatsCats on November 01, 2019, 02:51:33 PM

Who is supporting bootyguy, idgi

The white people from Get Out.

Nintex · « **Reply #43734 on:** November 01, 2019, 03:23:56 PM »

The GOP goes all in

https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1190340751063949312

team filler · « **Reply #43735 on:** November 01, 2019, 03:26:46 PM »

Quote from: agrajag on November 01, 2019, 09:18:38 AM

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1190126347173056513

https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1190331634555457537

Brehvolution · « **Reply #43736 on:** November 01, 2019, 03:33:11 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on November 01, 2019, 03:23:56 PM

The GOP goes all in

https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1190340751063949312

231 Democrats and the Constitution to be exact.

agrajag · « **Reply #43737 on:** November 01, 2019, 03:37:43 PM »

Quote from: filler on November 01, 2019, 03:26:46 PM

Quote from: agrajag on November 01, 2019, 09:18:38 AM
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1190126347173056513
https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1190331634555457537

it's always Sonic fans

Nintex · « **Reply #43738 on:** November 01, 2019, 03:46:40 PM »

Awww yeah they rolled out drunk Larry to ramble about the economy.

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1190295401410318338

agrajag · « **Reply #43739 on:** November 01, 2019, 03:56:30 PM »

Quote from: CatsCatsCats on November 01, 2019, 02:51:33 PM

Who is supporting bootyguy, idgi

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1190353710074871808

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