Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
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#boycottfacebook
and the inauguration on the 20th.
#Letsmakeittheleastwatchedinaugurationinhistory
If only our friends and relatives weren't glued like zombies to Meta's products...
Already left twitter.
And you can thank AI that made all that data so valuable to start hiding it behind massive pay walls.
It seems like the world just went crazy.
All social platforms turned into bot/far right propaganda tools.
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If so, I agree.
Is this a reason Nick Clegg is leaving?
Or was he responsible?
There are newsrooms around the world for whom that funding means survival.
For those using the platforms, it means they are again on their own to discern what's genuine information and what's not.
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Some of the best, most innovative research has been shut down over the last few years:
🎁 🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/technology/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU4.dKd2.-2vEXbjiNbm4&smid=url-share
Back then, the social media companies would change their policies and infrastructure in response. They were imperfect, but they tried.
During the first Trump term, Facebook introduced the fact-checking program (from December 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/15/facebook-flag-fake-news-fact-check)
During the second Trump term, Facebook closed the program down (gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ends-fact-checking-on-facebook-instagram-in-free-speech-pitch-8e46ad52?st=47b51q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)
Zuck really has gone full MAGA trying to shut down information. I think the next name change will be from META to MAGA.
I personally hated that peak Facebook era circa 2010 when people were mindlessly trying to officialize Facebook as if you didn't have an account there then you didn't have a life.
FUKKKK ZUCK!
It is not conspiracy or complicated.
THERE WERE INVESTIGATIONS WITH CONCLUSIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT BUT NO LEGA ACTIONS TAKEN!
https://oversight.house.gov/release/the-cover-up-big-tech-the-swamp-and-mainstream-media-coordinated-to-censor-americans-free-speech-%EF%BF%BC/