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This is a case of kissing the ring,
said tech analyst Carolina Milanesi
Community 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 Tech
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 UniversityIf 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 speechTwitter tried it and can't withstand the volume of misinformation and other violent, violative content,
she addedIn 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 KenyaAbandoning 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 AFP_(cropped).jpg)
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 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,
DiResta said
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 biasI 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, sayingThe 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.jpg)
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,
Jordan said
Our government works best when the life experiences of the American people are represented,
Pettersen said in a statementWould all this be happening if Trump didn’t get elected? Nobody knows,
the lobbyist said
We’re looking forward, not backward,
said House Minority Leader Hakeem JeffriesSenior 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.”
The release adds