mo4ch:>Facebook zealously fights ‘hoaxes & fake news’ about ITSELF on Facebook | Mo4ch News

Facebook obsessively monitored perception of itself on the platform using tools with names like Night’s Watch, prioritizing its response to these ‘fake news’ over hoaxes with real-world consequences, according to former employees.Facebook used a dedicated software program called Stormchaser to track viral negative rumors and hoaxes about itself, both on Facebook and on WhatsApp, according to former employees who spoke to Bloomberg. Users who shared the offending information might be greeted with a friendly rebuttal from Facebook itself informing them that the rumor they’d just shared was not true.Also on rt.comWho checks the fact-checkers? Facebook leaves verification to groups funded by Soros, US CongressThese “quick promotions” were deployed as far back as 2015 to counter a number of persistent rumors about Facebook that the social networking platform claims are false, including the stubborn but always-denied allegation that Facebook listens to users through their phone’s microphone…