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If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not ‘biased’ for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team,
Kate Starbird, a professor at University of Washington and co-founder of its Center for an Informed Public, posted to Bluesky following the Meta announcement
The fact-checking program was never going to save Facebook, but it was the last bulwark to complete chaos on the platform,
said Nina Jankowicz, former head of a disinformation board within the Department of Homeland Security, who now helms a nonprofit organization focused on countering attacks on disinformation researchersThe people who you get to participate will be incredibly important,
said Messing
Yes, moderation is imperfect and yes, users across the political spectrum distrust it, but platform moderation policies reflect platform values,
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I believe that the former president should be responsible for his words.”
Zuckerberg repeatedly touted its fact-checking efforts and partners, including at a 2021 House Energy and Commerce committee hearing, where he seemingly called out Trump for inciting the January 6th attacks, sayingThis was after two years of Zuckerberg being hounded by the weaponization committee,
Jankowicz said, referring to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government — one of the latest tools used by Republicans to institutionalize their complaints around social media and political bias
Although research supports the idea that crowdsourcing fact-checking can be effective when done correctly, it is important to understand that this is intended to supplement fact-checking from professionals -- not to replace it,
said Gordon Pennycook, from Cornell University
If he's all-in on the Musk playbook, the next step will be slashing yet more of his content moderator numbers,
including those that take down violent content and hate speechCommunity Notes users are very much motivated by partisan motives and tend to over-target their political opponents,
added Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative at Cornell TechIn an information ecosystem where misinformation is having a large influence, crowdsourced fact-checking will simply reflect the mistaken beliefs of the majority,
he addedBy axing his factcheckers, Zuckerberg has ripped out yet another of his companies' safety measures on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram,
said Rosa Curling, co-executive director of UK-based legal activist firm Foxglove, which has backed a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya.jpg)
Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives,
Ellis addedTwitter tried it and can't withstand the volume of misinformation and other violent, violative content,
she addedAbandoning formal fact-checking for crowdsourcing tools like Community Notes has failed platforms in the past,
Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at the nonprofit watchdog Free Press, told AFPOh, so we're just done with fact-checking? That's pretty rich coming from Mark Zuckerberg, the man who likes dropping puppies off of bridges and who has been banned from all Taco Bell franchises."
One user, @erich.withanh wrote on Threads
Meta/Facebook is now reversing its assault on free speech. They are no longer under the control of the radical left. This is another win for common sense."
User @deantwanfitts wroteI've seen how this can strain relationships, with patients feeling distant from friends or family because of disagreements fueled by what they see online. Without tools like fact-checking to help filter out false information, these divides can grow even wider,
Dr. Ignatov told NewsweekWhen people are exposed to conflicting information and exaggerated stories, it's easy to feel confused and unsure about what's true,
Dr. Ignatov saidOur journalists will continue to provide nonpartisan coverage of false and misleading political claims, helping you to sort fact from fiction, just as we have done for more than 20 years."
The post readsWithout proper checks, people may be misled into believing harmful ideas or taking actions that hurt their physical or mental health. I've seen how misinformation can lead people to avoid medical treatments because they trusted false claims they saw online,
he continued