Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."
Honestly didn't know Facebook even had a fact-checker system. They are pretty explicit in their mission to sow discord and disinformation, it's basically their whole business model
They are pretty explicit in their mission to
sow discord and disinformationmaximize profits and minimize costs
With Trumpism taking over the federal government wholesale, there's little reason to even pretend to cater to the minority party. Unless there's a shift during the midterms, of course. Then Zuck will rediscover religion and insist the content on his site needs to be moderated by liberals again.
But its all just patronage. These moderation jobs are either soul-sucking gig work or no-show positions for the local professional political leadership. The work isn't a profit center so it only exists as a means of assuaging regulators or cultivating cronies. Facebook's real work is in harvesting data for Nat.Sec and gulling suckers with ads. Nothing else matters.
I entirely agree, except I don't think it has anything to with maximizing profits for Facebook. If it did, then the logical thing to do is whatever gets the most people on the site the fastest, not do something that instantly alienates a massive amount of people. It does have everything to do with maximizing profits for those in charge of running the Facebook show, though. Then it makes perfect sense to align the company with whatever political regime can promise the most bloody money for the new yacht and underage 'entertainment'.
Also, I genuinely think the Zuck gets off on being a slimy little cunt and is probably really excited right now. Facebook has always been a little too quick to go down the scummy road, even for capitalism.
Honestly its probably for the best. When people started investigating the "Fact checkers", it was discovered that they didn't know anything about the checks that were attributed to them.
I mean that's a problem... but it sounds like the problem gets worse.
Realistically fact checking always lies in the problem of how do we know the fact checkers aren't corrupted. Unfortunately popular vote seems just as dangerous way of trying to back it.
Huh. Facebook would never either knowingly or because they are money grubbing POSs hire incompetent fact checkers and then when their incompetency comes to light use that as an excuse to scrap the whole thing... Never!
The fact checkers were not incompetent, they weren't involved at all.
Why should ziozuck pay to fail when he can fail for free?
This truly is a new age of Enlightenment for humanity!
What’s next for that absolute cesspool?
Looking forward to the next pandemic where vaccines aren’t even developed because the Facebook rabble demands politicians provide us all with crystals and horoscopes instead.
Just doing what their elderly conservative user base demands.
I'm guessing this is a cost thing. You don't need to pay for fact checking anymore.
.. still obnoxious and pushing us towards a dead echo chamber internet. Get ready for AI personalities voting on community notes.
No, this is to make it even easier to spread disinformation.
unless you can opt out of community notes like you can turn off comments then what's the point? i'll just stop posting (i pretty much already do)
Honestly not a bad idea. The community notes are easier to trust and typically more accurate anyway.
Easier to trust and more accurate currently, but I don't doubt that the algorithm to generate the notes will be internal and closed source, allowing them to utilize that trust to manipulate people.
Better than partners certified by the International Fact-Checking Network?
Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.
Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.
Does that sound like a good way to get facts?
