{"id":14975,"date":"2020-01-07T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=14975"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:44:13","slug":"manipulated-media-facebook-can-tell-you-alllll-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/manipulated-media-facebook-can-tell-you-alllll-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulated Media: Facebook can tell you alllll about it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week while mindlessly scrolling through Facebook (aka, getting it out of my system before implementing my 2020 resolution of mindless scrolling \u2013 particularly on Facebook) I came across a sponsored ad for a new course<\/a> that is geared towards helping journalists spot manipulated media.<\/p>\n

This struck me as odd for two reasons \u2013 one, I would attest that most journalists have a good idea of what manipulated media looks like, as they\u2019ve been trained to spot such nonsense, two, really? Facebook is going to sponsor this?<\/p>\n

The course itself is developed by Reuters News Agency and is titled \u201cIdentifying and Tackling Manipulated Media\u201d. I suppose it\u2019s not the worst thing in the world for journalists to brush up on the ever-changing media present on the Internet.<\/p>\n

However, it struck me as a blatant opportunity for Facebook to save face as it\u2019s no secret that Facebook is a breeding ground<\/a> for manipulated media and the spreading of false information. While it\u2019s a pretty good PR move on their part, as a journalist, I see right through it.<\/p>\n

According to Axios, “Facebook is spending six figures to fund a course on manipulated media and deepfakes for newsrooms, executives. The course material has been developed by Reuters, and Facebook is funding its international expansion as a part of the Facebook Journalism Project.”<\/p>\n

Naturally, this seems like a way for Facebook to rebuild the trust they\u2019ve lost over the years as being reputable. However, it\u2019s impossible to keep everything on the up and up when so much content is constantly being uploaded by so many different people.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that Facebook needs to focus on more of what they said they were going to do in eliminating fake content and stopping manipulated media from spreading. While it\u2019s important to notify others of what to look for, that isn\u2019t enough as most people won\u2019t take the time to educate themselves \u2013 especially if this is geared towards journalists only.<\/p>\n

In eliminating this content, Facebook should be making more of an effort to notify people of what to look for as being fake. This could be done through use of sidebar messages and email notifications.
\nAll in all, this sponsorship feels like a Band-Aid over a bullet hole (and I don\u2019t say that because I currently have Taylor Swift\u2019s Bad Blood stuck in my head). Do you think this is enough effort on their part?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY) Facebook is sponsoring an online course to help journalists spot manipulated media, and it feels comical for a long list of reasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337355,"featured_media":14976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[345,1234,299],"class_list":["post-14975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-facebook","tag-real-estate-news","tag-real-estate-technology-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/man-in-suit-jacket-standing-beside-projector-screen-2173508-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14999,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975\/revisions\/14999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}