The head of Facebook commented on the presidential elections in the United States Onet.pl

“Our goal is to give everyone a voice. Deeply believe in people, believe that people are basically good, and even if the result of the election gave many of us a painful, we believe it is important to show and to understand the perspective of those on the other side,” explains the head of Facebook in posted on night Polish time recording on your website.

“Only a small part of the 1 percent content of Facebook is false information, and of that one percent only a portion applies to the policy. Does not seem so possible, so that small piece of information zaważyła the outcome of the election. That does not change, however, is the fact that we have worked and will work to ensure that the false information be deleted absolutely. But the search for truth is difficult. Part of the lie is easy to find, but most of them seems at first sight to be real and to come from trusted sources, and only the details is because, or, conversely, false,” – explains the head of Facebook.

Zuckerberg did not provide any precise data, but some numbers we have learned recently, thanks to the American instytutom and researchers, and it brought them a celebratory “Interfax”. According to the Pew Research Center in 44 percent of Americans knowledge about current events in Facebook. One fake quote from Hillary Clinton that “wish people like trump to participate in elections because they are honest and can’t buy them”, posted on the website conservativestate.com they gathered for a week almost half a million views.

Alessanro Bessie and Emilio Ferrara of the University of southern California analyzed, and the entries on Twitter, the second a powerful social network and came out to them that the fifth part of the 20 million Tweets generated by bots. Moreover, their own investigation into this subject received the American website BuzzFeed, which has adopted a somewhat extreme, but very popular portals, both right and left.

“right” as Facebook, the percentage of lying was 38 percent, and a “left” and 19 percent. In addition, more than 100 pages for supporters trump has created a group of talented adolescents with… of Macedonia. They didn’t care that the show real information. Had a range and earnings in the advertising.

the fact that the growing popularity of Facebook has a growing impact on our reality has also recently convinced the organizers of the ” March of independence “of Russia, the fortress of Europe” and several far-right organizations. Facebook has banned the display of a poster advertising the March because it contained the symbol of the Phalanx, which according to the website “includes historical references to hate speech”. Erupted a considerable hindrance, and ultimately, the part is unlocked.

We realize how important this page is for those who want to celebrate the national Independence day of Poland so we decided to restore it and to explain to the administrators why some present at its contents was not allowed. We hope that the people responsible for the content provided on the site, will respect our Community Standards, said in an open letter, passed to the media is responsible for public policy at Facebook in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Richard Allan. Yet on the other hand, the Russian Center of Monitoring the Behavior of a Racist and Xenophobic reported at the time that the parties narodowców was tens of times reported network facebook how to violate the community standards of the social network.

Even if we manage to eliminate false information and inciting hatred, the problem remains the algorithms that show us the profile information similar to those we would like or skomentowaliśmy. And this can lead to that will cease to reach us feedback and information from the other side.

U.S. Elections and the hype around the March of independence is just another illustration of the problem, which experts, such as Wojciech Orliński from “Gazeta Wyborcza”, author of the book “”Internet. The time for fear” of writing for many years. The information industry giants like Facebook and Google in the dissemination of information, increasingly important. But not liable in the event virtually any.

(PK)