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This is a case of kissing the ring,
said tech analyst Carolina Milanesi The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously,
Zuckerberg wrote at the time 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 researchers The people who you get to participate will be incredibly important,
Yes, moderation is imperfect and yes, users across the political spectrum distrust it, but platform moderation policies reflect platform values,
This 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 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, saying Remember that a few years ago, [the social media platforms] all kicked President Trump off the platform. Now, they’re all going to Mar-a-Lago to visit with him because they know like this Trump administration is pro-First Amendment, and pro-free speech, and so it’s a dramatic change,
Our government works best when the life experiences of the American people are represented,
Pettersen said in a statement Would all this be happening if Trump didn’t get elected? Nobody knows,
We’re looking forward, not backward,
said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Senior leadership of McConnell’s personal office will remain: Chief of Staff Terry Carmack, Communications Director Robert Steurer, Press Secretary Stephanie Penn, Speechwriter Sophia Slacik, and Legislative Assistants Andrew Fisher, Dominic Travis, Richard St. Onge, and Will Clark.”
There's potentially a bit of billionaire jealousy,
said Andrew Selepak, media professor at the University of Florida To hear that Meta is removing all its factcheckers [in the US] is concerning … people have a right to be protected from the harmful effects of misinformation,
Meta needs to set out how the risks of harm to children in the UK is not being increased by the removal of factcheckers in America and its changes in content policies.”
Rani Govender, its regulatory policy manager for child safety online, said The EU will remain uncomfortable for social media giants by standing up for the integrity and independence of free expression and democratic processes. Europe will never accept manipulation and disinformation as a standard for society. By abandoning factchecking in the US, Meta is making a profound strategic and ethical mistake.”
Valérie Hayer, an MEP and the leader of the centrist Renew Europe grouping in the European parliament, said They will be increasingly exposed to all the content categories that they need to be protected against.”
Arturo Béjar, a former senior engineer whose responsibilities at Meta included child safety measures, said I am extremely concerned about what this means for teenagers.”
A Meta whistleblower told the Guardian We must stand firm against such proposals, which would remove any chance we have to hold tech executives to account and require them to enforce the safety standards on their platforms that are set in our laws.”
