Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram
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Independent fact-checkers are a vital safeguard against the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation that threatens to undermine free democratic debate in Australia and aims to manipulate public opinion,
said AAP chief executive Lisa Davies
Misinformation and disinformation is very dangerous, and we've seen it really kind of explode in the last few years,
Chalmers told national broadcaster ABCIf 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 speech
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 UniversityCommunity 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 TechIn 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 KenyaTwitter tried it and can't withstand the volume of misinformation and other violent, violative content,
she addedAbandoning 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
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 addsAfter Trump first got elected in 2016, ... the legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.”
he said
The policy change is a tactic to earn favor with the incoming administration while also reducing business costs related to content moderation,
said Ben Leiner, a lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who studies political and technology trends
I shudder to think what these changes will mean for our youth, Meta is abdicating their responsibility to safety, and we won’t the impact of these changes because Meta refuses to be transparent about the harms teenagers experience, and they go to extraordinary lengths to dilute or stop legislation that could help,
he saidWe will continue to operate. The majority of our business was non-Meta,
said Duke
We have built the largest global fact-checking network of any platform and have contributed more than $100 million to programs supporting our fact-checking efforts since 2016.”
The abrupt news comes in stark contrast to a Meta blogpost from 2022 in which the company boastedLead Stories will see a drop in revenue with the loss of the Meta contract, which will result in a staffing reduction,
cofounder Alan Duke said in an email