又一天，另一场引人注目的愤怒在Facebook上蔓延。这一次，这是我们经常谈论的话题，来自Infowars的亚历克斯·琼斯，他昨天大喊大叫，踮起脚尖，非常接近呼吁对特别顾问罗伯特·穆勒施暴的路线。Charlie Warzel在BuzzFeed中提供了详细信息：

On his Monday afternoon show, Jones issued a prolonged rant against special counsel Robert Mueller, accusing him of raping children and overseeing their rape, and then pantomiming shooting the former FBI director. The show was streamed live on Jones’ personal, verified Facebook page, which has nearly 1.7 million likes.

In the clip, Jones baselessly accused Mueller of having sex with children. “They’d let Mueller rape kids in front of people, which he did,” he said on the show.

Facebook告诉沃泽尔，这番咆哮并不构成可信的暴力威胁，并将帖子置之不理。到今天早上为止，它有大约46000个视图。

当天晚些时候，Facebook与记者举行了一次事先安排好的电话会议，讨论其在虚假信息和选举方面的工作。五位负责新闻源完整性、安全政策和选举等问题的高管阐述了他们为改进服务所做的工作。没有重大的新消息发布，但随后的问答时间让记者有机会询问Infowars问题。

“我们知道人们不希望在他们的新闻提要顶部看到虚假信息，”新闻提要诚信负责人Tessa Ly***说。里昂继续表示，该公司认为有责任限制恶作剧的传播。而且，如果这些恶作剧造成了迫在眉睫的伤害威胁，Facebook——截至上周，仅在两个国家——将把它从平台上删除。

目前关于Facebook上信息战的辩论已经进入第三周，但已经陷入了僵局。Axios今天试图通过两件事推动它向前发展——一件是Ina Fried，调查媒体类型，了解Facebook应该做什么；另一个是莎拉·菲舍尔（Sara Fischer），她为Facebook的所有新闻相关问题提供了更广泛的解决方案。

这两篇文章都值得一读，即使菲舍尔的文章给人的印象特别悲观Facebook可能无法做比它已经尝试过的更多的事情，除非它做出一个会影响其业务和长期愿景的重大改变。”）

当我们等待一个更全面的解决方案时，我会选择Facebook来回答一些在今天的电话中从未找到答案的问题：

• 在被贴上虚假或虚假标签后，Facebook可以分享哪些关于虚假信息的数据？该公司喜欢说，平均而言，帖子的浏览量减少了80%，但查看特定页面的数字会有所帮助。例如，Infowars。
• 事实核查人员表示，他们平均需要三天时间才能将Facebook帖子标记为虚假。大多数帖子在这一点上不是已经获得了他们一生中的大部分观点了吗？这难道不意味着“减少分销”的策略效果显著降低吗？
• 最后，我的老板尼莱·帕特尔问了我一个问题。Nilay指出，Facebook以什么标准说琼斯对米勒的咆哮不代表“可信的暴力威胁？”当法庭做出这样的判决时，他们会概述自己的理由并引用相关的先例。

“如果Facebook想要运行一个法律系统，”他说，“它也应该这样做。”

民主

为了在中国取得进展，Facebook注册了一家中国子公司

在另一次说服中国**允许其在那里开店的定期努力中，Facebook正试图在那里开设一家“创业加速器”，并为其提供3000万美元的资金。但目前还不清楚到底发生了什么，保罗·莫祖和希拉·弗兰克尔报道。他们说，公司注册已从一个**网站上删除，一些对加速器的引用似乎已在社交媒体上被审查。

参议员罗恩·怀登（Ron Wyden）认为他帮助塑造了互联网

我的同事科林·莱彻采访了《通讯礼仪法》及其《改变世界法》第230条的作者之一。

WYDEN: We thought it was going to be helpful. We never realized it was going to be the linchpin to generating investment in social media. We envisioned that the law would be both a sword and a shield. A shield so that you could have this opportunity, for particularly **all and enterprising operati*** to secure capital, and then a sword [by allowing them to moderate without facing liability over the practice], which said you’ve got to police your platforms. And what was clear during the 2016 election and the succeeding events surrounding Facebook, is that technology companies used one part of what we envisioned, the shield, but really sat on their hands with respect to the sword, and wouldn’t police their platforms.

WhatsApp:WhatsApp与时间赛跑，在2019年大选前修复虚假新闻混乱

据文卡特·安南（Venkat Ananth）报道，WhatsApp在当前的暴民暴力危机中与印度**官员进行了大量的联系，他说，这与该应用程序延迟付款有关。

在WhatsApp上，假新闻很快——而且可能是致命的

Lizza Dwoskin和Annie Gowan报道说，不仅仅是印度：WhatsApp在全世界造成了问题。牛津大学的一份新报告发现，今年至少有10个国家出现了虚假信息活动，其中包括巴西、印度、巴基斯坦、津巴布韦和墨西哥。

国土安全官员说，俄罗斯黑客进入美国公用设施控制室

周二，Facebook不会对俄罗斯在当前中期选举活动中的干预采取行动。但国土安全部发现，俄罗斯黑客已经渗透到美国电力公司的控制室。”他们说，这场运动可能正在继续，”丽贝卡·史密斯报道。

在别处

脸谱网签署协议，表示不会让房屋广告商按种族排斥用户

据我的同事尼克·斯塔特（Nick Statt）报道，Facebook已与华盛顿州签署了一项新的具有法律约束力的协议，同意取消广告商在某些广告目标领域排除种族、宗教、性取向和其他受保护类别的能力。

为什么人们分享假新闻？媒体效应的社会技术模型

这篇研究论文似乎支持马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）上周有争议的言论，即分享假新闻的人通常认为这是真的：

People do not share fake news stories solely to spread factual information, nor because they are “duped” by powerful partisan media. Their worldviews are shaped by their social positi*** and their deep beliefs, which are often both partisan and polarized. Problematic information is often simply one step further on a continuum with mainstream partisan news or even well-known politicians. We must understand “fake news” as part of a larger media ecosystem. That does not mean that we should ignore platforms; we must scrutinize the ways in which algorithms and ad systems promote or incentivize problematic content, and the frequency with which extremist content is surfaced. Finally, while media literacy and fact-checking efforts are very well-intentioned, they may not be the best soluti***, given the highly-polarized, mistrustful political climate of the United States.

推特禁止未成年人创建账户的用户

很多孩子在13岁之前注册了Twitter。我的同事Shoshana Woodinsky报道说，Twitter正在追捕他们，并将他们从他们的帐户中锁定，尽管他们现在已经成年了：

“For a couple of years, I couldn’t actually update my birth year on Twitter. If I tried to select my correct year, 1996, it just would be grayed out,” said Maxwell, a 22-year-old Twitter devotee, who found himself suspended last week. “On Wednesday, I checked again and noticed I could select 1996, but as soon as I saved the change, my account locked.” Though Maxwell has appealed repeatedly, he’s still locked out of the platform — at least for now.

Snap眼镜主管离开公司

据亚历克斯·希思报道，Snapchat眼镜公司的负责人是最新一位离开Snap的人。

Snap如何使直接回应广告成为一项大生意

汤姆·多坦（Tom Dotan）报道说，Snap可能是一款眼镜，但它已经找到了一种可行的广告格式。他说，他们已经增长到占总收入的40%左右。

假步行广告以Shutterstock的人物形象为特色

俄罗斯机器人正在积极推广“WalkAway”这个标签，据说这个标签是由离开该党成为共和党的民主党人使用的。事实证明，在竞选图像中描绘的许多所谓的前民主党人都是从Shutterstock手中买来的。

山景城对Facebook的不寻常规定：没有免费食物

这是疯狂和愚蠢的：

When Facebook moves into its new offices in Mountain View this fall, a signature Silicon Valley perk will be missing — there won’t be a corporate cafeteria with free food for about 2,000 employees.

In an unusual move, the city barred companies from fully subsidizing meals inside the offices, which are part of the Village at San Antonio Center project, in an effort to promote nearby retailers. The project-specific requirement passed in 2014, attracting little notice because the offices were years away from opening.

Pinterest的工程负责人李凡离开滑板车公司

Pinterest的工程主管李凡（Li Fan）将在预期的IPO之前离开该公司。

脸谱网正在不顾一切地取得成功

据库尔特·瓦格纳（Kurt Wagner）报道，Facebook的收益将在明天公布，华尔街对此感到兴奋：

When Facebook reports Q2 earnings on Wednesday, ****ysts are expecting — you guessed it — yet another great quarter.

“Despite all the negative headlines, we believe ad revenue should continue to drive very healthy growth,” wrote SunTrust’s Youssef Squali. Analysts think Facebook revenue will grow 43 percent over the same quarter one year ago.

发射

Twitter收紧了应用程序开发人员清理网站的流程

推特表示，在4月至6月期间，因违反其政策，推特删除了超过143000个应用程序。截至今天，推特对新开发人员设置了更多限制。

拿

深度伪造、虚假记忆和曼德拉效应：人工智能正在为我们的过去而到来

布赖恩·雷斯尼克说：“我们低估了假视频的扭曲思维潜力。”

We don’t have psychological studies directly looking at the ability of AI-faked video to implant false memories. But researchers have been studying the malleability of our memories for decades.

Here’s what they know: The human mind is incredibly susceptible to forming false memories. And that tendency can be kicked into overdrive on the internet, where false ideas spread like viruses among like-minded people. Which means the AI-enhanced forgeries on the horizon will only make planting false memories even easier.

我们注定要生活在Facebook的世界里吗？

亚历克西斯·马德里加尔（Alexis Madrigal）与《反社会媒体》（Anti-Social Media）一书的作者湿婆·维亚纳桑（Siva Vaidhyanathan）谈论Facebook是否被数据蒙蔽了双眼(是的，梵蒂冈说。）

Behaviori** is embedded in Facebook. They’ve been clear about this. Facebook is c***tantly tweaking its algorithms to try to dial up our positive emotional states, otherwise known as happiness. That’s one of the reas*** that they measure happiness to the best of their ability, or so they think. It’s one reason that they’ve run mood changing studies (that they got into trouble for). This is the kind of social engineering that they want to engage in. It’s one of the reas*** that they are trying to turn up the dial on the hedonic meter on the whole species. And that lets them ignore the edge cases, and those edge cases can be milli*** of people. People in Myanmar and Kenya. Women who are stalked and harassed through Facebook and have to rely on a clunky reporting system. The edge cases fall away and only recently has Facebook faced the sort of public scrutiny that has encouraged the company to take these problems seriously.

The information was available four or five years ago, longer in some cases. And they did nothing. But again, when you’re looking at that hedonic meter on your screen and you are seeing that the general happiness of Facebook users might be edging up, you can feel really good about the work you do every day and ignore the horrors on the margins.

最后。。。

数百万Facebook用户观看了一段视频，模糊了不良讽刺和“假新闻”之间的界限

一位保守派出版商对纽约国会候选人亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥·科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio Cortez）进行了一次“讽刺性”的假采访，在采访中，她从另一次采访中拍摄的视频被拼接到了一些旨在让她看起来愚蠢的问题上。这是一个病毒性的打击，许多人认为这是真实的。”如果没有免责声明，这与诽谤政治对手的尴尬企图是无法区分的，”我的同事阿迪·罗伯逊报道：

That distinction matters to Facebook, which protects satire while demoting (but not deleting) “false news” in the News Feed. Facebook reiterated to The Verge that “we do offer satire on Facebook, as long as it’s not violating one of our community standards policies,” like hate speech. The call is left to Facebook’s fact-checkers, who can add written context or a “satire” label if a post is sufficiently confusing — one might have been added to CRTV’s post if they hadn’t added a disclaimer. (We don’t know whether CRTV was contacted by Facebook about the post, although we’ve reached out for clarification.)

But Facebook has acknowledged that “satire” can also be a bad-faith cover for serious misinformation attempts, and the distinction basically boils down to a poster’s intenti***, which are irrelevant for people who are simply scrolling down the News Feed. Infowarsfounder Alex Jones has called himself a performance artist playing a character, and it’s not a leap to imagine Infowars or others making “satirical” c***piracy videos attacking school shooting survivors and claiming Facebook can’t censure them.

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