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Satirical websites are testing Facebook's policy on not being the 'arbiter of truth' by running false headlines claiming Mark Zuckerberg is dead or abusive

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Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.Redeem nowGet the latest tech news &amp; scoops — delivered daily to your inbox.Something is loading.A couple of satirical websites are putting Facebook's stance that it shouldn't be the "arbiter of truth" to the test. and , both satirical websites based in Australia, shared parody stories on Facebook with headlines that are filled with false claims about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The Shovel's headline incorrectly said the Facebook CEO had died, while The Chaser's headline falsely called Zuckerberg a "child molester."The fictional headlines serve as a challenge to Zuckerberg's recent comments regarding his company's stance on policing content on its platforms.The Facebook CEO detailed the social-media giant's policies before seeking to scale back social-media websites' protections from liability over the content posted on their platforms."I believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online," Fox News' Dana Perino on Wednesday. "I think, in general, private companies shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that."Trump's order, meant to allow federal regulators to amend of the Communications Decency Act, is reviving debate about how giants like Facebook should handle misinformation and whether they should be liable for the content users post on their platforms.Facebook has repeatedly said it does not want to be the "arbiter of truth" in recent years as concerns has heightened about the spread of misinformation and disinformation."I don't think we have to be the publisher and we definitely don't want to be the arbiter of truth," Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, told the BBC back in 2017, according to . "We don't think that's appropriate for us. We think everyone needs to do their part. Newsrooms have to do their part, media companies, classrooms, and technology companies."Facebook did not immediately respond to Business Insider's questions about whether it was aware of the satirical posts, whether it planned to take any action to remove them or limit their spread, or whether they violated the company's misinformation policies.The platform's on intentionally false news make a distinction for satire: "There is also a fine line between false news and satire or opinion. For these reasons, we don't remove false news from Facebook, but instead significantly reduce its distribution by showing it lower in the News Feed."Facebook's policies on freedom of expression have still drawn scrutiny from lawmakers, particularly around its choice not to .The satirical stories echo what happened in 2019, when Facebook a heavily doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was intended to make her look incoherent. Facebook instead notified users who attempted to share the video that the clip was manipulated.Weeks after that video had circulated, talking about controlling the data of billions of people appeared on Instagram. The video, which first spotted, was created by the artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe in collaboration with the advertising firm Canny.Instagram said in a statement to Business Insider at the time that it would treat the video the same way it treated all misinformation on the platform: It would be removed from Instagram's recommendation engines, like "Explore."Facebook rolled out for handling doctored videos in January that involve removing media that has been manipulated in ways that could "mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say."Videos that use artificial intelligence to merge content with a video to make it appear authentic, also known as deepfakes, will be removed under the policy. These rules, however, don't apply to parody or satire.Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.Subscribe to push notificationsAn icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.Keep readingIt indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.Redeem nowGet the latest tech news &amp; scoops — delivered daily to your inbox.Something is loading.A couple of satirical websites are putting Facebook's stance that it shouldn't be the "arbiter of truth" to the test. and , both satirical websites based in Australia, shared parody stories on Facebook with headlines that are filled with false claims about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The Shovel's...

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Satirical websites are testing Facebook's policy on not being the 'arbiter of truth' by running false headlines claiming Mark Zuckerberg is dead or abusive

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