{"id":1587,"date":"2020-03-03T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:01:23","slug":"facebook-is-rating-the-trustworthiness-of-its-users-on-a-scale-from-zero-to-1-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 – The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the past year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved to include measuring the credibility of users to help identify malicious actors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook developed its reputation assessments as part of its effort against fake news, Tessa Lyons, the product manager who is in charge of fighting misinformation, said in an interview. The company, like others in tech, has long relied on its users to report problematic content \u2014 but as Facebook has given people more options, some users began falsely reporting items as untrue, a new twist on information warfare<\/a> for which it had to account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s \u201cnot uncommon for people to tell us something is false simply because they disagree with the premise of a story or they\u2019re intentionally trying to target a particular publisher,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A user\u2019s trustworthiness score isn\u2019t meant to be an absolute indicator of a person\u2019s credibility, Lyons said, nor is there is a single unified reputation score that users are assigned. Rather, the score is one measurement among thousands of new behavioral clues that Facebook now takes into account as it seeks to understand risk. Facebook is also monitoring which users have a propensity to flag content published by others as problematic and which publishers are considered trustworthy by users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Facebook\u2019s fight against fake news has gone global. In Mexico, just a handful of vetters are on the front lines.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is unclear what other criteria Facebook measures to determine a user\u2019s score, whether all users have a score and in what ways the scores are used.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The reputation assessments come as Silicon Valley, faced with Russian interference, fake news and ideological actors who abuse the company\u2019s policies, is recalibrating its approach to risk \u2014 and is finding untested, algorithmically driven ways to understand who poses a threat. Twitter, for example, now factors in the behavior of other accounts in a person\u2019s network as a risk factor in judging whether a person\u2019s tweets should be spread.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 – The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to 1. The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the past year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved to include measuring the credibility of users […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}