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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.
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
"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.
And for free, no less!
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.
What does Facebook have now, a monarchy? Their moderators are way worse than Twitter fact-checking ever was.