Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, July 19th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Facebook and Zuckerberg, address misinformation and censorship,

Reddit rolls out live chat rooms,

Will Fuchsia replace Android,

and who is online journalism's newest savior.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

So you might have heard various stories in recent months about how in places like Sri Lanka,

Myanmar, India, and other countries, Critics have accused Facebook and

what-app and other Facebook platforms of being the breeding ground for

misleading, downright false, and inflammatory posts that have been put online

intending to stir people up to the point of violence. In fact, there have been many cases of actual acts of violence in those countries

critics say were instigated by posts on Facebook. Sri Lanka in fact temporarily shut down Facebook earlier this year after

posts led to actual mob violence in several areas. So Facebook yesterday

announced a new policy wherein the company will be reviewing

posts that it feels have the intent of causing violence or physical harm.

The posts will be reviewed in partnership with local organizations that Facebook identifies as being

in the best position to monitor threats on the ground. When Facebook identifies such a dangerous

post, it will be removed. The policy was quietly put into place in

Sri Lanka last month and will roll out to other markets soon. Facebook has

long had a policy of banning posts that are directly or obviously violent and now that

extends to posts that might not explicitly call for violence but that might indirectly

do so.

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