Facebook has started labeling some content as coming from foreign state-controlled media outlets, the company announced. The company will also begin labeling advertisements from those outlets, and in the coming months, block all their ads in the U.S.
RT and Sputnik “consistently cast President-elect [Donald] Trump as the target of unfair coverage from traditional U.S. media outlets that they claimed were subservient to a corrupt political establishment.” RT claimed to reach tens of millions of Americans daily, though it’s not clear how much influence the media outlets actually had over voters.
Lindsay Gorman, who tracks technology company policy on information operations for the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a pro-Democracy think tank, said it’s important for Facebook to label overt state media. But she said the decision is too little, too late. “This is a step that is long, long overdue and should have been taken in response to Russia's interference in 2016,” she said. “Is it helpful? Yes. But at this point, it's a drop in the bucket.”
While Facebook is still working to address foreign interference ahead of the 2020 presidential election, it’s also struggling with how to deal with abuse from domestic actors. On Tuesday, itBut Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has refused to label remarks by Trump encouraging violence against the protesters,
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