Facebook removed 'inauthentic behaviour' during Australian polls

Social media platform Facebook has reportedly removed two instances of 'coordinated inauntic behavioral' during Australian federal election in May. Facebook clarified to parliamentary committee that it is neir a referee to political debates r an arbiter of truth. After Australian Labor party has appealed to joint committee on electoral matters to investigate wher social media is having a negative impact on Australian democracy, Facebook reportedly used aforementioned statement as its submission to defend its role. “Coordinated inauntic behavior" is a term used to describe groups of ps or people that work toger to misle ors about who y are or what y are doing. 

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Facebook defends allegations of t removing fake news

In its submission to joint parliamentary committee on electoral matters which examines conduct of every federal election, Facebook has rejected arguments from Labor and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that it did t do eugh to remove death tax content. Facebook furr said that content was deemed false by third-party fact-checkers, and demoted in newsfeed, but t removed. social media giant said that it was ordinary citizens, elected politicians and political parties expressing ir opinions on inheritance taxes. platform said that it staunchly stands against misinformation though it is t a tritional publisher. Facebook ded that it temporarily restricted political or electoral s purchased from outside Australia ahe of election in April and May. About 2.2 BN fake accounts were removed between January and March 2019, and majority of se accounts were caught within minutes of registration, Facebook told committee.

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Facebook's actions are inequate: ACCC chairman

ACCC chairman, Rod Sims h said in a media interview that Facebook should have removed bogus death tax claims given its own independent fact-checking processes h found material to be false. He also said that though y have power to fight fake news, y shrug off responsibility. Warning that recommendation would turn Australia’s media regulator into truth police, industry body representing Google, Facebook and Twitter have alrey rejected ACCC’s proposal for an industry code of conduct to fight fake news. Liberals, on or hand, do t blame digital misinformation in ir submission to parliamentary committee, but flagged irregularities with voting.

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