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Meta eliminates third-party fact checking program, moves to 'Community Notes' model (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's broad consensus that's featured there, so it manufactures consent less hard, and more importantly, the fact-check appears attaches to the original misinfo, so it gets reshared with it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

but broad consensus does not mean true.

to me this just sounds like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy. sure, whatever you guys want to believe, go for it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think you and the person you're responding to both have a point. They're totally passing the buck to their users, but their users will probably be better at putting accurate information than they are. It's a different set of problems to be sure, but I think it's a preferable one

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

but their users will probably be better at putting accurate information than they are.

"they" (Meta) was not the one fact-checking, it was a 3rd party service. And I don't know why you assume a social media user base would be better at it, especially with highly politicized things like climate change, vaccines, wars, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

to me this just sounds like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy.

And for free, no less!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy.

Lol this is the whole idea of the social networks - outsourcing of the work to the users (or "useds" as Stallman calls them). This used to be called "web 2.0". In other news, this also highlights one of the shortcomings behind the idea of democracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What does Facebook have now, a monarchy? Their moderators are way worse than Twitter fact-checking ever was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And a tweet with a CN attached cannot be monetized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tweets can be monetised? I only know Twitter from screenshots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's like YouTube, you can chose to show ads.