{"id":592042,"date":"2022-04-06T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=890fe8fceafc2a2073cb2727a8e7149d"},"modified":"2022-04-06T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:02:57","slug":"facebook-must-explain-how-feed-bug-made-disinformation-more-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/06\/facebook-must-explain-how-feed-bug-made-disinformation-more-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook must explain how Feed bug made disinformation more visible"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">For six months, a bug in Facebook\u2019s content-ranking algorithm increased the visibility of content previously flagged by fact-checkers as disinformation. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for detailed public explanations from the US social media mega-company about this bug and its impact.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p class=\"text-justify\">The flaw\u2019s existence has just been revealed by <em>The Verge<\/em>, a US tech website that obtained a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/31\/23004326\/facebook-news-feed-dow&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\"><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/facebook-must-explain-how-feed-bug-made-disinformation-more-visible\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsFor six months, a bug in Facebook\u2019s content-ranking algorithm increased the visibility of content previously flagged by fact-checkers as disinformation. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for detailed public explanations from the US social media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592043,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592042\/revisions\/592043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}