Facebook Weighing Ban on Hacked Info - Cyber Head
Just one week after Facebook purged hundreds of independent journalist and activist pages from its platform, the company’s top cyber official revealed that the social media giant is considering the removal of hacked information from showing up in newsfeeds.
An article Reuters published Monday featuring an interview with Facebook's head of cyber security policy Nathaniel Gleicher touts in its headline the company's plan to ban false information about voting requirements and fake news about polling stations ahead of November's midterm elections. Buried in the second half of the article, however, is news that Facebook is also weighing a ban on hacked or leaked information.
Facebook executives are discussing whether to ban posts on the platform that link to hacked material, Gleicher told the outlet.
The article goes on to set up a dichotomy between good hacks and bad hacks. Reuters first introduces the "dissemination of hacked emails" from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), saying it "likely played a role in tipping the 2016 presidential election to [US President Donald] Trump," a claim which, though trumpeted frequently, remains unsubstantiated. It also remains unproven that the emails taken from the DNC were hacked and not leaked by other means.
Even if that hacking allegation has been made in good faith, there is no indication that future leaks wouldn't be mistaken for hacks — or treated as such for political purposes — and thus removed. To compound the situation, attribution in the realm of cyberspace is often a fool's errand. It's not clear how Facebook would differentiate information sourced to leaks from that sourced to hacks, especially if sources are disputed by multiple parties.
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