Breaking News: Meta said it would end its fact-checking program and rely instead on Facebook and Instagram users to add notes or corrections to posts. The move is likely to please the incoming Trump administration and its conservative allies.
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I wonder why fact checking would be unbalanced? Is it perhaps because one side lies a lot more than the other? Balanced fact checking would require both sides to lie equally.
Isn't it time for someone to build an Instagram alternative based on @bsky.app technology? Just imagine: a photo-sharing app without the Zuck, the smelly algorithm and the TikTokification of everything, where you only see the things you want to see and can actually find faved photos back.
The end of fact checking "is likely to please the incoming Trump administration". So a) Zuckerberg is bending the knee and b) you're now admitting that Trump is a liar.
Zuckerberg said, this move had worked on X, to justify the step Meta is taking, as if X has not turned into a cesspool of rightwing misinformation and conspiracies
Don't you know? Facts are biased and fake news, even when having been printed in universally-accepted textbooks for generations. Even when you point directly to their Bible which is, supposedly, the true word and infallible.
when you won’t have the right to vote in 4 years, when musk will be the only legal US employer in 10, when the police can shoot you in your apartment for publicly criticizing capitalism any time soon, those “end results” will mark the end the freedom of all except his sycophants
It’s no use trying to explain what is happening to these people. They have been brainwashed and they are impermeable to logic. We are fast sliding into fascism and most of these people don’t even know what this is. It’s over, they own the world media, they won.
You are a conspiracy theorist now? Will you be happy to be proven wrong over the next 4 years? And when you are...will you finally stop paying attention to the liars and scam artists filling your head with these ideas?
Time to delete Facebook the same way I deleted X. I don’t go on social media to be a teacher and make corrections to other people’s insane lies. I’ll stick with blue sky and TikTok until they take that away.
I see this as an opportunity for somebody to develop an alternative to FB which replaces the only decent aspect of it which is a way for people to connect with each other, IRL friends and cyber friends. Perhaps Mark Cuban can look into this. FB for news/opinion is brainless/lazy way to get info.
Instagram is owned by Meta soooo will see. The good thing about Instagram is it’s mostly just photos. I don’t know if it’s that much better but we will see time will tell.
Left right center, #Americans are done with the #bipartisan #SilentViolence perpetuated by an establishment which rather favors a #billionaire #oligarchy #ClassWar stealing the people’s #prosperity
All #citizens deserve #food #shelter #safety #health #belonging #WorkerRights and a sense of #purpose
Is anyone surprised? It's Trump's world now. Lies, deceit and bull crap prevails. Social media is toxic. Can you imagine the propaganda in 1940 if Facebook and X were a thing? Even Sinclair Lewis couldn't have predicted it, but George Orwell had some idea.
Judgment reserved: FB’s fact checks are slow as hell, rare to actually trigger, and are treated as a badge of honor by the community because of their centralized nature. Turning the process over to an army of dedicated, volunteer Wikipedia editors might actually be the answer
Facebook has already become a pretty useless app for me filled with fake AI generated articles. Just today I’ve seen articles that the Jets have hired Mike Vrabel and Rex Ryan. Neither of which is true or likely to happen.
Meta needs to understand that there are large numbers of people who are not OK with this. Just like the movement to exit X in favor of Blue sky, people who care about fighting deliberate misinformation should delete Facebook.
Time to dump FB too it seems. It's become a cesspool anyway I rarely go on there because it's mostly adds and clickbait rather than the friends and family I'm only there for.
Straight out of Project 2025 (Section 3.5: 'Restoring Free Speech'). 'Free speech' now means letting misinformation roam free while truth gets sidelined. Let the shouting match begin. Welcome to the post-fact era.
Community notes is possibly the only improvement made since Twitter changed hands.
Not really sure why this is being framed as pro-Trump (seems much easier for the federal govt. to spread propaganda or censor stories within the current system.)
Between MSM bending the knee to King donny, and social media opening the floodgates of misinformation, the very notion of reality is being stripped away from us.
When media companies like Facebook fact check, even when completely accurate and well meaning, it actually empowers the lie. We've seen this again and again where a nothing becomes a something because it is suppressed.
It is the Streisand effect in the market of reality, making lies mainstream
I didn't know what the Steisand effect was. It has nothing to do with singing. It is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. Interesting story behind this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Because genuflecting to and currying favor with Trump is behaving more like Musk. So here's to FB and Instagram becoming the fact-free, hate-filled hellscape eX-Twitter has become...
Curious timing to say the least. Do billionaires not get where this ultimately leads. Because it ain’t good for them in the long run if history is a guide.
Finally, the truth about Mark Zuckerberg's child sex trafficking ring can come to light! Former servicemen suffering the long untreated, searingly painful effects of PTSD will, thankfully, more readily find the community support to go ahead and make that Turo booking and finish that mini-festo. This
nation will at last fulfill the Jeffersonian promise of a true democracy where every citizen can play a vital role in bringing back the unnecessary scourge of polio, the measles, mumps, diphtheria, chickenpox, and whatever rough beast of a pandemic slouching our way happens to pop up. The joy of
watching other people's children suffer and die, and knowing, "I made this!" will no longer be the exclusive privilege of millionaire podcasters, failed son nepo babies, wealthy sexual assaulters, and, frankly, sociopathic tech billionaires trying to appear "human" like Vincent D'Onofrio in M.I.B.
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-checking/435fa7e2-288e-5e62-a38c-9d63dd09357c?smid=url-share
That would stop most people from popping off.
It‘s not „conservative“!
Why?
сказали чтобы не занимались чушью. а сменили доктрину(
Бам и Восточный не космодром( ядерные базы и там ядерное ближе чем Куба или ты в Киеве
All #citizens deserve #food #shelter #safety #health #belonging #WorkerRights and a sense of #purpose
I hope these billionaire fucks understand what they are doing.
When shit goes sideways in the movies, who is the 1st ones the crazies go after?
They think they are helping themselves but in reality….
Place à une réalité alternative sans limite ni contrôle.
Get. Off. FB.
Who is still on that aging piece of crap platform?
It’s for liars and wing-nuts.
Leave it.
I deleted it in 2016 and never looked back.
You have to delete it. Zuck depends on user numbers.
Teach him a lesson.
i'm so shocked that meta is publicly fellating the dicktator
Not really sure why this is being framed as pro-Trump (seems much easier for the federal govt. to spread propaganda or censor stories within the current system.)
goebbels would be proud.
It is the Streisand effect in the market of reality, making lies mainstream
A billboard. Social media is a billboard.
Get it right NYT, words matter.
America had a good run…