fact checking
Who decides what counts as misinformation?: Platform governance
Nine minutes January 6, 2021. Eleven people on shift in the trust-and-safety operations center by morning. Forty-three by noon. A post calling for the execution of the vice president sat in the review pipeline for nine minutes before a twenty-six-year-old content moderator in... Who decides what counts as misinformation?: The Story
The letter with no evidence February 19, 2020. Twenty-seven scientists published a Lancet letter declaring lab-origin theories about COVID "do nothing but create fear." The letter cited no genomic evidence.... Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X. Maybe this is good for this platform making this kind of platform even more needed?
"We're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms," Zuckerberg said in a video. "More specifically, here's what we're going to do. First, we're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the U.S."
"The reality is that this is a trade off. It means we're going to catch less bad stuff, but we'll also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we accidentally take down."What do y'all think?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-ends-fact-checking-program-community-notes-x-rcna186468I think community notes is a great movement in the right direction, so overall this is a good thing for society. As far as I can tell, "Fact Checking" is an orange orientation to what-is-truth, and "community notes" is a green one....