Instagram has a new set of policies by which the social medium is an artistic photo of “nepnieuws’ name, reported that several Dutch media this week. NUcheckt checks to see which of them is true and the conclusion is that the reporting is inaccurate.
the Heavily-edited pictures, are now used by Instagram, hidden, couples, multi-media. It’s going to be a new solution that should help in the fight against the large amount of fake news,” writes the belgian newspaper The Latest News (Wednesday). The same article will be in the morning, and it will be published on the website of the newspaper AD.
Wednesday night is spending Bright, which is part of the RTL, also pay attention to the strict Instagram policy that parent company Facebook, according to the techwebsite hope “nepnieuws to fight”. In this way, the article on the website of the TV brands, breaking News, and the night to go.
Regenboogbergen are otherwise marked < / p> to The media to substantiate their reports with a reference to a picture that was on the 11th of January has been posted by an Instagram account by the name of MIX in the Society. The image is digitally processed, making it appear as if a person is in a regenboogkleurig mountain range of the state.
a relevant message will be displayed after a warning is posted: it is going to be ‘incorrect information’, colloquially known as the nepnieuws. This is because the Indian news website NewsMobile in the Instagram photo, if such a name. NewsMobile is one of the official factcheckpartners on Facebook.
If it turns out that it is a message that is false or misleading in any way, that is, the message with the image, in which, in the opinion of the factchecker at the Instagram user, is disclosed. So that’s what happened with the picture of the MIX of Society.
The issue here is not about the new Instagram policy, but in order for an independent factcheckpartner on Facebook. This factcheckpartners on the social media asset, it is not a new one: in december, extending Facebook’s ability to display posts with a tag to Instagram.
“We are taking no particular action on the content that is gefotoshopt,” explains a spokesperson from Facebook on Thursday to NU.nl as a result of the news coverage in the media.
NewsMobile pulls in the opinion of
The false news is spread in the following is an article from American photography, sacred site PetaPixel. The site quotes a photographer, Toby Harriman, who, on his Facebook page, writing a post in which he wonders if it’s factchecken of works of art is not “a little bit of a step too far”.
the NewsMobile late Thursday NU.nl know that the picture doesn’t like nepnieuws had to be considered. “We don’t understand that nuance,” said editor-in-chief Saurabh Shukla in a comment. The Indian news website, the Instagram tag and after that the resulting turbulence is removed. As a result, the image will no longer be hidden behind a warning.
interestingly enough, the “news” after that time, it was posted in the AD and in the night. Also, the blogs and the XGN pay a lot of attention to the so-called “policy” is, at the time that the picture is not as misleading as it is labeled.
Conclusion < / p> Instagram has no policy allowing for “overly processed” or “artistic edited” photo’s can be blocked or hidden from view. Parent company, Facebook allows factcheckers in december to be able to Instagram for disinformation to be provided with a label. We rate the news as incorrectly .