{"id":735,"date":"2021-03-03T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/facebook-has-a-blind-spot-why-spanish-language-misinformation-is-flourishing\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:38:55","slug":"facebook-has-a-blind-spot-why-spanish-language-misinformation-is-flourishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/facebook-has-a-blind-spot-why-spanish-language-misinformation-is-flourishing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Facebook has a blind spot&#8217;: why Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say Spanish-language content is less often and less quickly moderated for misinformation than English content<\/p>\n<p>In the last year, Facebook adjusted some of the most fundamental rules about what gets posted on its platform, halting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/04\/facebook-groups-misinformation\">algorithmic recommendations<\/a> of political groups, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/08\/facebook-bans-vaccine-misinformation\">banning lies<\/a> about vaccines and removing a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/may\/02\/facebook-ban-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos\">high-profile figures<\/a> for spreading misinformation and hate \u2013 including Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/01\/twitter-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation-labels\">Twitter targets Covid vaccine misinformation with labels and &#8216;strike&#8217; system<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/03\/facebook-spanish-language-misinformation-covid-19-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c073f4960de208d95f95b6ab3c44d4792d378fe5\/0_100_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bc0317d1fe706f7b365cfb72bc343f77\" title=\"'Facebook has a blind spot': why Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing\" \/>Researchers say Spanish-language content is less often and less quickly moderated for misinformation than English content<br \/>\nIn the last year, Facebook adjusted some of the most fundamental rules about what gets posted on its platform, halting algorithmic recommendations of political groups, banning lies about vaccines and removing a number of high-profile figures for spreading misinformation and hate \u2013 including Donald Trump.<br \/>\n Related: Twitter targets Covid vaccine misinformation with labels and &#8216;strike&#8217; system  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say Spanish-language content is less often and less quickly moderated for misinformation than English content In the last year, Facebook adjusted some of the most fundamental rules about what gets posted on its platform, halting algorithmic recommendations of political groups, banning lies about vaccines and removing a number of high-profile figures for spreading misinformation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/facebook-has-a-blind-spot-why-spanish-language-misinformation-is-flourishing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Facebook has a blind spot&#8217;: why Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}