People Reported Fake News About Moldovan Politics To Facebook For Three Years Before It Took Action
In Moldova, Facebook's unhurried response to misinformation reported through its own false news tool inspired a trio of developers, Victor Spînu, Gheorghe Pisarenco, and Sergiu Mitreanu, to build a browser extension and associated database for policing that content. They called it Trolless and used it to amass a database of 700 fake accounts.
Working with Valeriu, the three developers were finally able to start an email dialogue with the company; They sent over their database of accounts, many of which were eventually banned. “In the context of upcoming parliamentary elections and the critical situation in our country, we want to ask you to help us,” the email read. “We would like to propose our help with this issue. Our team consists of three people and we are ready to provide any assistance in order to make things happen faster.”to flag misinformation since 2016 — to little avail.
“It's the same for all of us: Nothing ever happened,” he said. “Whenever it's from a basic source or from a single profile, nothing happens.” Brossard said that if you’re trying to flag fake news or fake profiles and you aren’t one of Facebook’s official, like France 24’s Observers, Africa Check, or Chequeado in Argentina, it’s almost impossible to get the company’s attention. And even if you do, you sometimes get the run-around. “It’s like, ‘of course I know Hoaxbuster and I personally think that you're doing a tremendous work. But at this point I'm not the right person, maybe you should talk to…’ and so on,” he said.
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