DIY VIRAL
In a world where the spread of easily debunked misinformation and propaganda has become as common as regular fact-based reporting, Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the time has come for Meta to ditch its independent fact-checkers.
SIGH.
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That's right, Facebook and Instagram users will once again be able to post their proof that the conspiracy is real with the information they have extracted. SeeTheConspiracyIsReal.com without those pesky fact-checkers showing up and poking holes in their pseudo-intellectual nonsense in real time. And because conservative-leaning white dudes have jumped on privilege and persecution complexes are, at the very least, predictable, Zuckerberg justifies this move by repeating the MAGA world's claim that fact-checkers are biased against conservative republicans, including the right to liberty. freedom of speech and protection against censorship are somehow violated (by people who point out that they are lying).
From CNN:
As part of a number of sweeping changes that will significantly alter the way posts, videos and other content are moderated online, Meta will adjust its content review policies on Facebook and Instagram, removing fact checkers and replacing them with user-generated “community ratings.” “, similar to Elon Musk's X, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday.
These changes come just before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Trump and other Republicans have blasted Zuckerberg and Meta for what they see as censorship of right-wing voices.
“Fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they have created,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. video announcing the new policy Tuesday. “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to silence opinions and exclude people with different ideas, and it has gone too far. »
Zuckerberg did, however, acknowledge a “trade-off” in the new policy, noting that more harmful content will appear on the platform due to content moderation changes.
Meta's new head of global affairs, Joel Kaplan, told Fox on Tuesday that Meta's partnerships with third-party fact-checkers were “well-intentioned to begin with, but there has simply been too much political bias in what 'they choose to check and how. »
Conservatives probably understand that in a social media environment that has completely left fact-checking behind, they will never have to prove that the independent fact-checkers Zuckerberg has used on his platforms since 2016 are biased against Republicans or the conservatives. — you know, contrary to the demonstrable reality that prominent Republicans and conservatives and their supporters simply publish more outrageous, easily verifiable lies than their friends on the other side of the political and ideological aisle. They will never have to show their work when they claim that conservatives are disproportionately or unfairly targeted by these measures. politically racist providers of content based on truth and facts to compensate for their perpetually propagandist idiocracy. (Look, I never said I was not biased).
All they have to do is repeat over and over again that the fact-checkers are biased, and that this narrative becomes a force in itself, no matter how little hard evidence is presented to it.
Just as Elon Musk did when he acquired Twitter, changed its name, and traded its fact checkers for “community ratings,” Zuckerberg is framing his decision as a battle against censorship, which, of course, makes no sense given that social media users were not allowed to post their lies – they simply couldn't publish it without other social media users having more tools to discern and verify the accuracy of the information.
At the very least, it would be nice if Zuckerberg admitted that he's just following Trump and Musk's marching orders. Trump has spent the past four years and some change spreading propaganda that the 2020 election was rigged against him despite dozens of judges in the lower courts, courts of appeal and the Supreme Court, the Ministry of JusticeTHE former head of election cybersecurityTrump's own campaign and Attorney General all saying clearly and unequivocally that there was no evidence of rigged elections. He and his cronies also spent his entire last campaign lying about an increase in violent crime in America, a narrative that is not supported by a reputable criminal database. During a nationally televised presidential debate, he spread lies about animal-eating Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, despite the fact that Springfield police, city planners, Republican mayorAnd the state's Republican governor had all informed Trump and JD Vance that there was no evidence this was happening. (Then Trump and his MAGA henchmen had crazy that it was verified on this lie.)
These are just a few examples of Trump's penchant for pathological lying and his supporters' penchant for believing every word without even bothering to do the bare minimum of research to see if he's telling the truth.
But no – It is clearly the perfect time for Zuckerberg to eliminate fact-checkers on his platforms.
I hate it here.
DIY VIRAL
