Zuckerberg's free speech push for Facebook and Instagram replaces fact checkers with community notes

[billc]

He thinks he is going to save money, but like wood shingle roofs, they might be cheap, but not good in a fire; and there are huge number of people in the UK and EU who have had enough of the scams and abuse of children, and would love to see them burn.

 

[lonetac]

Fact checkers are wrong more often than the average guy on the street. When they get it wrong, the user gets cancelled. So much so, that they have a number of ways to ostracize the user, and in some cases, the user doesn't even know that he has been disrespected.

Simply purely false. Good fact checkers as the one's I referenced have cited sources that can be validated. Your anectdotal experience with knowledge of 1 or 2 instances doesnt discount the 1000s if not millions of times they got it right.

Someone saying false or true is simply not good enough, it must be reinforced with cited sources.

Some folks should be criticized for the dumb things they say and believe, there is no excuse to be so ignorant to how the world works in 2025. Nuking hurricanes, government is making hurricanes, world is flat, etc. Those people should be named and shamed so this ridiculousness stops.

“Fact-checking” fact checkers: A data-driven approach | HKS Misinformation Review

This study examined four fact checkers (Snopes, PolitiFact, Logically, and the Australian Associated Press FactCheck) using a data-driven approach. First, we scraped 22,349 fact-checking articles from Snopes and PolitiFact and compared their results and agreement on verdicts. Generally, the two...

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu

 

[billc]

Any type of censoring destroys the freedom of speech, because you are basically saying some people have no discernment while others are entitled to a higher moral standard thus they are always right. Classic communism, nowadays revamped by progressivism. You surely seem to think people that think differently than you are "sheeple", but you don`t understand that just by being human and thus subjective, you are just as vulnerable to bias and lies that fit your way of thinking. But many people that live in democratic countries don`t understand democracy anymore. The freedom of speech, the respect for different opinions is what drives a healthy society not shutting down, censoring, demonizing, insulting and ridiculing the ones we disagree with. As for fact checking, give me a break. Anyone can pick and choose "facts" to create a false narrative in the big picture. Legacy media does this routinely.

You cite communism, but the Russians think there are such things as alternative facts, which might be why their scientists get out of the country as quickly as they can.
The truth is the tech bros are unable to moderate or check with AI because there is no intelligence present. This is a fact they are able to lie about because few people understand Turing's halting problem, and those that do are keeping quiet because their jobs depend keeping the AI myth going.

 

[user478318]

These tech companies rules change to adjust with the currently ruling political parties. No moral, no attitude, just go with the wind and make profit.