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Facebook Loses Fact-Checking Group Snopes After Two Years

By Sarah Frier
February 1, 2019, 3:36 PM EST
Updated on February 1, 2019, 4:29 PM EST

Snopes Media Group Inc., one of Facebook Inc.’s first fact-checking partners, said it’s ending the relationship after two years, even though the decision may cause financial distress.

“We want to determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff,” the company said.

Snopes’ contract with Facebook was worth $100,000 in 2017, but was far more valuable than that for Facebook, which frequently touted its fact-checking partners as helping combat the fake news problem on its site. Snopes said it hasn’t ruled out working with Facebook, or any other platforms, in the future.

Facebook has been working since the 2016 U.S. election to rein in misinformation across its platform, though its results have been spotty. External fact-checking partners have criticized Facebook’s attempts as only scratching the surface of false content on the social network.

The fact-checking efforts are often understaffed and have only recently begun to address the explosion of misleading photo and video content. Repeat offenders have also found workarounds. One site that was frequently flagged by fact-checkers simply changed the name of its site, Poynter reported this week.

“We value the work that Snopes has done, and respect their decision as an independent business,” Facebook said, noting that it has 34 other fact-checking partners.

Fact-checking initiatives may not be as important for the site’s misinformation problems as other technological improvements, like detecting fake accounts trying to spread the content, Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former head of security, said on Twitter.

“The fact checking partnerships were always PR, because it’s the kind of well-understood, visible intervention that journalists can see and cover,” Stamos tweeted. “The really effective product changes are often invisible.”

(Updates with Facebook comment in the sixth paragraph.)
Seems like a fairly benign humorous comment to me.
Totally agreed on it being a marketing term, not a real prediction improvement - it's essentially the same as any other app in terms of "will it rain" / etc.

But they do a much better job of notifying about changes based on where I physically am, instead of for the city / region as a whole. Other weather apps I've used don't differentiate between "rain falling now 50 miles away" and "rain falling on my head", even though the radar map clearly gives them that info at a much finer level of detail.
The problem with your position is that dirty governments win not by access to information, but by controlling the processes of our government.

Police don't really need to plant evidence when they are believed over defendants to begin with. Go listen to the latest season of the Series podcast. Or the Reply All episodes about the police in NYC.

If a corrupt cop wants to take you down, they don't need any of this.
I mean, I'm gullible so I believe you, but I also believe Steve Yegge who wrote about this:

> Well, the first big thing Bezos realized is that the infrastructure they'd built for selling and shipping books and sundry could be transformed an excellent repurposable computing platform. So now they have the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and the Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and the Amazon Relational Database Service, and a whole passel' o' other services browsable at aws.amazon.com. These services host the backends for some pretty successful companies, reddit being my personal favorite of the bunch.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

(posted in 2011, and he claims he left amazon 6½y before that)

You sound confident so I'm sure there's something to it. But on the other hand, there's loads more, similar comments in that memo.

And Steve, well, Steve is known to be quite the iconoclast. I never took him to suffer fools gladly.
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I can vouch for their blurb on CMX in Miami. Truly rapacious experience. $28 and the popcorn isn't free, and service was awful (food delivered in the last 15 minutes of a 2-hour movie after ordering before the movie started). /rant
Interesting use of Notion as a publishing platform
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -- Leslie Lamport. I feel this should be rephrased for cloud computing at this point. The more people rely on cloud, the more these global fuck-ups are going affect them. Makes me feel pretty good about that server rack in my garage that addresses most of my own (and my business') compute needs.
The professional information on drugs.com does not suggest such a limitation when used under the supervision of a healthcare provider. It's most likely there because some common causes of congestion that don't clear up in a week can be more medically significant than the common cold. OTC pain relievers say not to use for more than 10 days, also because the underlying cause may require treatment.

Regardless, people often do use OTC drugs in ways that might not be advisable, but definitely aren't recreational (leaving aside the issue of whether criminalizing recreational drug use is a good idea).
Refusing to speak to the police or otherwise being evasive is not the same as exercising your rights. Your behavior prior to requesting an attorney can be used against you--"he was acting suspicious by not giving me direct answers". But you can't request an attorney unless you've been detained, which they won't do.

I don't think there's any substitute for (a) being polite ("Yes, sir. No, sir.") and (b) being aware of the context. Obviously you should never consent to a search or even give the impression that you're consenting. But literally not talking to the police is not really possible, so there's no avoiding keeping your wits about you so you can act in the most appropriate way possible.

Pulling out your camera is a pretty ballsy move that could escalate things, but I wasn't there so can't judge. But if there were witnesses watching such as other passengers or, especially, a conductor, I wouldn't risk it. I'd just ask for the witnesses' contact information afterward. An irate cop could always snatch your phone away; it's much harder to intimidate a witness, and anyone inclined to do that probably wouldn't think twice about taking your phone or doing something worse later, anyhow. Ultimately you're pretty much helpless, so you have to optimize for the [more likely case] of the cops being mostly honest. They're unfortunately trained to intimidate (we've militarized our civilian police forces), so just because they're acting like assholes doesn't mean they're actually assholes.
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Plenty of people die of strokes in their 50s without involving drug use. It's not like he was a model of good health in general.

Judging from his complaint of failing eyesight the day prior to his death [1], it sounds like a common embolism. Considering Atherosclerosis is the number one cause of death in the developed world [2], it's not like we need to search for a likely cause.

I'd argue that it's likely he was going to die around this age wether he used drugs or not, but the drug use gave him a more pleasurable experience throughout his years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Death

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherosclerosis
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Just looking at Q4 results [0], looks like operating margins for the businesses are:

US Retail: 5% [$2,251 / $44,124]
Intl Retail: -3% [-$642 / $20,849]
AWS: 29% [$2,177 / $7,430]

Really striking diff between Retail and AWS biz.

Walmart, for what its worth, had operating income of $20B on $500B in revenue, so about 5% there too.

[0] https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/a5035fcd-5646-45df-b...
The contract was only for $100k? I know they got a ton of revenue out of it on the ad side, but that's still shocking to me given how much work they were doing for Facebook.
And then there are the people who delude themselves into thinking privacy will save them from governments.
Did they promised you something and didn't deliver?

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You think you deserve to get something from someone else and didn't get what you wanted?

These are two different things. If it is latter - move on and succeed elsewhere.
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Problem is private companies do and will have access to this data and will one day do the worst imaginable thing we don’t want them doing.

There is really no way forward with this. Even is legally limited to law enforcement, the data will get hacked, leaked, abused. It’s just a matter of time.
I prefer reading black text on white screens, thank you very much. Code in an editor is different because syntax highlighting is better on black.
It's evidence. I can point you to tons of cases of eye witnesses providing faulty testimony (in good faith, not to mention those who lie).

Is there an oracle that will tell you who committed the crime? No. But it seems odd to be OK with some forms of evidence that are even more unreliable than this, if your issue is about reliability.
It was a beautiful dream, but one can't be both an outsider and an insider.
Facebook is becoming less useful for spreading clickbait garbage, so that may be part of it.
Because nothing could happen to your rack (or garage)?
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In another reply thread I mentioned that I'm using a $50 smartphone kit consisting of a smartphone stand(Nulaxy brand, but there are dozens of similar designs) and iClever folding Bluetooth keyboard for writing. I think this is roughly along the lines of what you might want. The keyboard fits snugly in a vest pocket(it comes in two versions - I'm using the larger version with full-size keys and backlight) and gives a decent - not amazing, but good enough that I don't care - typing experience. There are many folding Bluetooth keyboards on Amazon, but this one stood out from the pack.

Combined with the stand to raise my phone I have something a bit more ergonomic than most integrated-device experiences, definitely better than what I would get from a Gemini when a flat surface is available, and I can literally throw on my vest and go for a jog and then take out the kit at a coffeeshop and lose myself in writing without difficulty. You might also need more I/O or a full PC architecture, but this setup was like a "my search is over" moment for me.
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Because a tiny apartment in the Bay Area is going to cost you as much as a McMansion in rural Kansas.
Is there a source for this? I'm genuinely curious. The "AWS started as Amazon's extra capacity" is such a compelling story.
I've heard this argument and, sure, some people just don't care. Privacy. Shmivacy.

But, the thing is the example you gave is just a matter of degree. I mean, if you sold the logs with PII, location info, etc, then that would be near the other end of the privacy continuum. And, since you explicitly provided an example that included aggregate vs personal info, then I assume even you would care about the latter.

So, the question is, at what point along the continuum do you begin to care? Following that, surely you'd allow that others may choose a different point and that, given that it's their privacy, maybe their concerns shouldn't be summarily dismissed?

But, beyond that, the example you gave is invalid. There is a qualitative difference between you logging information about visitors who have chosen to visit your site, versus participating in a scheme to provide that information to a third party who your visitor did not choose to visit. This is especially so when that third party is then able to compile a dossier on that visitor's broader behavior, based on other site-owners who participate.

Add to this that Google is frequently able to personally identify that visitor via their Google login.
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> There is no reason to use light-mode with modern screens. It's taxing on the eyes, probably not good for kids and teens who are using screens 4 hours a day and it doesn't seem to offer benefits over dark-mode in terms of accessibility.

Aside from the fact that many people prefer it?
I can’t say for sure, but I’m assuming they meant because it is (in comparison) not a distributed (or complex) system.
They pursued that for a short while when they had self doubts in their ad business. This resulted in them buying Parse. Only later to find out their ad business is solid and shutting down parse.
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Absolutely, signing artists and acting as their label and main (exclusive?) distributor could work out pretty well for them.
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I'm just advocating for the simpler and less costlier solution, speak with your wallet and remove yourself as data from the system, and encourage others.

Definitely don't send any money to these companies, as that's a lost game already.
There's a case against globally accessible DNA databases from the point of view of dragnet approaches picking up people whose connection to the crime scene is either totally incidental or actually nonexistent and purely down to data mixups, but that's a largely separate issue from authoritarian police trying to massage the evidence in a case against a particular person.

If you're already a "convenient suspect" the police wish to build a case against, they don't need to find you on a consumer genetics database to be able to obtain a sample of your DNA or strongly hint that they expect to be able to use DNA evidence (truthfully or otherwise) to send you away for a very long time if you're not willing to consider moving to plea bargaining territory.
Perhaps @media(prefers-color-scheme)?
1. Company buys something that doesn’t exist.

2. Company lobbies government to demand that their something must be made to exist.

Genius.
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> Engineering managers at CircleCI are now dedicated to people management: focused on development of a set of engineers, tech leads, and team leads. They hold regular 1:1s and career growth conversations with the engineers who report to them, and are responsible for goal setting, feedback, coaching, and mentoring for them. They also work across a set of teams to ensure team health, knowledge sharing, business value delivery and alignment across teams. This means that our engineers have managers who have great interest and investment in their personal and professional growth, and teams have someone to coach them through the product delivery process.

Was this not the case before? What were EMs doing then? This is the only definition of EM that I've ever known.
My personal perspective:

There's a lot to be said about humanities value models of life. You aren't here to acquire wealth, build a career, or do anything that society may call normal and successful.
Yet, most of us blindly chase this dangling carrot, often the price is a life we forgot to live truly for ourselves.

Being youthful means to be free from the shackles of normality that society uses to tie us down. Youth often sees the dilemma, they see the mess our false models have created for the planet and they begin to initiate their own internal struggles between their dreams and the human system. They go seek help from health professionals but the issues are systemic to society itself, not the individual.

By the time they are mid 30, most will be married, have a child, have a mortgage and a decent car, along side a job or career, but probably ended up suppressing their dreams and their truth to achieve all that. Now they have dependants and debt and there's not a huge amount of space for change that they are yerning for.
They wanted to live abroad, learn foreign languages, busk as a musician in the streets and perform in jazz bars, but now they simply go to work full time, and maybe once a week and on the weekends work on a little side project to keep their creative juices flowing.

We are a civilization that has given into fear and would rather choose the guise of the security and materialistic rhetoric over the liberation of knowing that life is delicate, precious and could be gone tomorrow, so you may as well live it completely in truth, rather than in someone else's narrative.
> use Youtube either in private window, and/or download content with youtube-dl

You can play youtube directly in major video players (mpv, vlc), at least on linux. Although, afaik, they use youtube-dl in the background.
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