The Facebook has begun to collect and categorize through the public posts of its users the image of their political beliefs. His findings will be given to ABC News and BuzzFeed to help cover the presidential election of 2016.
The company confirmed the partnership with the two news companies in an email to the Huffington Post on Friday. In its context project, το Facebοok θα κατηγοριοποιήσει τις ενημερώσεις κατάστασης για τους πολιτικούς και γενικότερα τα θέματα πολιτικής από τους ενήλικες χρήστες του Facebοok στις ΗΠΑ σαν θετικές, αρνητικές ή ουδέτερες. Τα δεδομένα θα καθοδηγήσουν την υποβολή εκθέσεων από το ABC και το BuzzFeed για τις πολιτικές πεποιθήσεις ορισμένων δημογραφικών στοιχείων. Οι επανειλημμένες ενέργειες collectionpractices of the most popular social network are already known to us, but this specific act of collecting political data is the first time it has happened.
A Facebook spokesperson told HuffPost that the company will collect information only from its members' public updates and not from private messages or replies to other users' posts. The company also stressed that the aggregated data it will hand over to ABC and BuzzFeed will be anonymous.
These promises could be another fairy tale from Facebook: A recent one research showed that of the 4.000 Americans who took part the 82,9% does not trust facebok with their personal data.
Politics is a new field for Facebok, and perhaps inevitable, since one a recent study by Pew found that 48% of Americans are reading political news on Facebook.
