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Report: Meta's fact checking program failed to spot most disinformation
NewsGuard found 86 percent of sampled posts got past fact checking flags.
Published by misinformation watchdog NewsGuard, the analysis found that only 14 percent of sampled posts with Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation narratives were flagged as false by Meta. The research was conducted across Meta platforms, using 457 identified posts that advanced 30 different false claims. One of several reasons for this discrepancy, according to NewsGuard, is that Meta's algorithm fails to spot differences in language, such as rephrasing or paraphrasing, once a post is deemed as misinformation.
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