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Facebook applies Chinese, Russian state media labels
The labeling of Russian, Chinese and other state-controlled media organisations will begin at Facebook Inc (FB. O). Later this summer, it said on Thursday, that it would block any ads from such outlets targeting U.S. users.
According to a partial Facebook list provided, the largest social network in the world will be labeling Russians Sputnik, Iran's Press TV and China's Xinhua News. The company applies the label at the beginning of approximately 200 pages.
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy said in an interview that Facebook is not going to label any U.S.-based news organization at this point, as it found that US administration offices have editorial independence.
In fact, since the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook, which acknowledged that its Russian use of its platforms did not interfere, has increased its defenses and has imposed more transparency on its pages and publicity platforms.
Last year, the company announced plans to create a national media label. However, it is critical of its manipulation of misleading and racially accused posts by the United States. President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump
The new measure is ahead of the US presidential elections in November only months.
As such, Facebook will not use the medium-related label that equals could push "boundaries that are extremely slippery," for media outlests affily with individual political figures or parties.
"The most critical case is the beginning of what we want to do here," he says.
Speaker Geng Shuang, the Chinese foreign ministry, told reporters during a daily briefing in Peking on Friday that social media companies should not selectively impose obstacles on media agencies. "We hope that the corresponding social media platform could overcome the ideological prejudice and have an open and acceptable stance on the media role of each country, "he said."
Sputnik urged governments to "regulate Facebook in an attempt to impose US-inspired suppression of freedom of speech" in a statement to Reuters.
The first company to do this is not Facebook.
In 2018, Youtube, owned by Google's Alphabet Inc, (GOOGL.O), started identifying video channels that carry mainly news items. But critics of YouTube failed to label certain state news agencies that enable them to earn ad revenue from videos that contain misinformation and propaganda.
In a blog post, Facebook said that its label would appear both on pages around the world and on news feeds in the U.S.
Facebook also indicated that before the November presidential elections it would ban ads targeted by the United States from state-controlled bodies "out of caution." In addition, the ads are labeled.
