Meta gets rid of fact checkers and says it will reduce 'censorship'

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/meta-censorship-moderation/index.html

by sampo • 2 years ago

44 13 2 years ago

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ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621627

nostradumbasp• 2 years ago

Worryingly sounds like "Let the fake news and propaganda proliferate for profit."

josteink• 2 years ago

On the contrary «fact checkers» have rarely had any other function than persisting propaganda for the status quo, which quite often have turned out not to be true.

I say good riddance.

linotype• 2 years ago

Examples?

nh23423fefe• 2 years ago

expressions of worry are so plentiful

Over2Chars• 2 years ago

When making a little extra profit and swapping an expensive team for some AI can be trumpeted as "reducing censorship", suddenly surveillance advertising king, Facebook, is on-board.

In the same way that monopolies that produce super-profits are called "innovation" (innovation in profit-making, that is).

And George Orwell thought the communists were fond of double-speak.

ColinWright• 2 years ago

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42622147

Meta gets rid of fact checkers and says it will reduce 'censorship'

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