{"id":81958,"date":"2018-08-22T03:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/facebook-implements-trust-scoring-for-all-users"},"modified":"2018-08-22T03:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:22:29","slug":"facebook-implements-trust-scoring-for-all-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/facebook-implements-trust-scoring-for-all-users","title":{"rendered":"Facebook implements trust scoring for all users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-implements-trust-scoring-for-all-users.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook won\u2019t tell you exactly why it does or doesn\u2019t trust you.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Facebook revealed this week it\u2019s trying to stem the flow of fake news by assigning trust values to users. It insists on keeping its criteria for trustworthiness secret though, in case untrustworthy people try to game the system \u2014 and they almost certainly will.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Lyon, Facebook\u2018s product manager, told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2018\/08\/21\/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one\/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c17bc9040d57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> <\/em>a bit more about the system, in which the company uses several flags to identify which people on the site are more trustworthy than others. It rates users on a scale of zero to one. The only judging metric she would admit to is a person\u2019s history of reports.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called Hard Fork.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2018\/08\/21\/facebook-implements-trust-scoring-for-all-users\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/facebook\/2018\/08\/21\/facebook-implemen...all-users\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook won\u2019t tell you exactly why it does or doesn\u2019t trust you. Facebook revealed this week it\u2019s trying to stem the flow of fake news by assigning trust values to users. It insists on keeping its criteria for trustworthiness secret though, in case untrustworthy people try to game the system \u2014 and they almost certainly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}