Facebook Wants AI to Screen Content, But Fairness Issues Remain
- Senior executive details ways company is working on fairness
- The biggest problem remains figuring out what is true
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One of Facebook Inc.’s biggest issues in trying to stop the spread of fake news on its platform is being able to train its algorithms on good examples of truth and falsehoods.
"Often there is not common agreement on whether something is false news or not," Joaquin Quinonero Candela said in a phone interview ahead of his talk at the F8 developer conference in San Jose, California. "At our scale, there are not enough professional fact-checkers in the world to do it."