How Serious Is the Proliferation of Fake News on Twitter That Fei-Fei Li Has to Be Invited to Step Down?
Breaking news: Fei-Fei Li will join Twitter as an independent director. This is the first time in nearly two years that Fei-Fei Li has returned to the business world from academia. What is the purpose of this goddess's return? What are the differences in the cooperation with Twitter?
On May 11, Twitter published an article titled “Update on How to Handle Misleading News” on its official blog. Subsequently, the CEO announced on Twitter that Fei-Fei Li would join Twitter as an independent director.
After returning to the academic circle for nearly two years, Fei-Fei Li was once again invited back by a major technology company.
When Fei-Fei Li joined Twitter at this time, she not only brought cutting-edge technology and influence, but more importantly, solved an urgent problem - the rampant fake news on the platform.
NetizensIt takes only one mouth to spread a rumor, but Twitter has to work hard to refute it
Twitter: It’s not the most users, it’s the most fake news
According to the 2019 Global Social Media User Size Report issued by data company Broadband Search, Facebook has approximately 2.4 billion users, followed by YouTube with 2 billion, Instagram with approximately 1 billion, and Twitter with 330 million users.
Although Twitter's user scale and degree of globalization are not as large as the previous platforms, when it comes to the speed of spread and impact of false news, Twitter ranks first.
In the first month of the coronavirus outbreak, there were more than 15 million tweets mentioning COVID-19, including a large amount of false news and misleading information.
Among them, some netizens registered fake hospital accounts and posted news that a case was found in a certain place and it was about to be blocked. This false news spread quickly, causing regional riots and public panic.
Some media outlets maliciously released misleading videos saying, "Wearing masks to prevent infection is a conspiracy by the US government to boost sales of N95 masks."
These false and misleading news have affected millions of netizens on Twitter before being debunked.
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In the blog post "Update on How We Handle Misleading News" published on Twitter's official blog yesterday, Yoel Roth, head of site integrity, and Nick Pickles, director of public policy, mentioned that stricter supervision will be implemented on "misleading news" in the future.
Confirmed misleading information will be removed directly; some information that needs to be verified will be labeled to warn users.
Can Twitter, which is in the shadows, make a comeback through technology?
In the past 12 months, the S&P 500 index rose 4.2%, but Twitter's stock price fell 19 %, failing to outperform the market, which also gave the board of directors a headache.
Yesterday, after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that Fei-Fei Li had joined Twitter, Fei-Fei Li retweeted the tweet and expressed her expectations for the new appointment.
Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani mentioned that Fei-Fei Li's rich experience and expertise will bring new insights at the AI level to Twitter's development.
For Fei-Fei Li,This is not the only good news recently. In February this year, she was successfully elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
As a strong promoter of technology for the benefit of society, she focuses on studying the moral and ethical issues involved in AI. Her work at Twitter is also another practice of her concept of "technology for good."
For Twitter,It is hoped that Fei-Fei Li’s joining will restore investors’ confidence and bring real changes to the rampant fake news on Twitter.
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