Welcome to the age of disinformation

[Frankfooter]

The two biggest billionaire owned social media have declared they are now allowing disinformation.

Zuckerberg says he will get rid of fact checkers.

Mark Zuckerberg tells Fox News that Meta will "get rid of fact checkers" in latest appeal to Trump | Salon.com

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Musk has admitted he is using censorship and defunding people he doesn't agree with. Now he's off on a European tour of disinformation with a particular attack on Starmer and Muslims in the UK.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/musk-europe-uk-social-media-accusations-1.7424791

Meanwhile trump gains office with a threat to use his theoretical billions to sue any newspaper that posts anything negative about him.

Welcome to the age of disinformation.

 

[Skoob]

Awwww...now that fact checkers have been proven to be politically biased and a better method is being implemented, (community notes) the left has a problem.
No one is getting rid of fact checkers as Frankfooter misleadingly tries to peddle.

Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, is a feature on X (formerly Twitter) where contributors can add context such as fact-checks under a post, image or video. It is a community-driven content moderation program, intended to provide helpful and informative context, based on a crowd-sourced system. Notes are applied to potentially misleading content by an algorithm not based on majority rule, but instead agreement from users on different sides of the political spectrum.

And what happened to the left embracing Musk as their hero, and now attack him because he now supports Trump? That's predictable.

 

[Frankfooter]

 

[mark moo]

Classic reptile guy

 

[jalimon]

Awwww...now that fact checkers have been proven to be politically biased and a better method is being implemented, (community notes) the left has a problem.
No one is getting rid of fact checkers as Frankfooter misleadingly tries to peddle.

Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, is a feature on X (formerly Twitter) where contributors can add context such as fact-checks under a post, image or video. It is a community-driven content moderation program, intended to provide helpful and informative context, based on a crowd-sourced system. Notes are applied to potentially misleading content by an algorithm not based on majority rule, but instead agreement from users on different sides of the political spectrum.

And what happened to the left embracing Musk as their hero, and now attack him because he now supports Trump? That's predictable.

A study done by the Washington Post found that community notes are four times more likely to be approved on posts from Republican politicians than from Democrats.

Don't trust Musk. He shaped X to his own intend. Which is to transform it to a propaganda machine for the right.

 

[PeterParker1000]

It wouldn’t have come to this if news agencies just reported without bias.

 

[Frankfooter]

It wouldn’t have come to this if news agencies just reported without bias.

Tell that to the handful of billionaire owners.

 

[bver_hunter]

The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes
Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to cozy up to Trump have concerning consequences.

Changes to content moderation

• Replacing fact-checkers with Community Notes: Meta had worked with 90 independent organizations to fact-check posts that spread on its platforms. Those fact-checkers would append warning labels to false content, and Meta would also reduce the distribution of those posts. Zuckerberg has accused the fact-checkers of being politically biased, while providing no examples, and said they’ll be replaced with a Community Notes system that will be phased in over the coming months.
• Reducing content restrictions on topics like “immigration and gender:” Zuckerberg said the platforms will focus on removing posts that contain “illegal and high-severity violations” and allow more posts to stay up that they might have previously been flagged. Effectively, the company is cutting back on content moderation in general and taking down fewer posts on hot-button political issues.
• Bringing back politics content: Meta had previously downgraded politics content and reduced the distribution of it on its platforms, citing user requests for less of this content in their feeds. Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be phasing political content back into users’ feeds due to changing demands.
• Moving content and moderation teams: In another bid to address alleged political bias, Zuckerberg said Meta’s content moderation team will move from California to Texas.
• Working with Trump to combat censorship by other countries: Zuckerberg committed to collaborating with Trump to fight censorship and regulations in other countries, pointing to the blocking of Meta apps in China and European tech policies he claimed were stifling innovation.

Donating to Trump’s inaugural fund and visiting Mar-a-Lago: Meta is among the tech firms donating $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund. Amazon has as well, and Apple CEO Tim Cook and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have made comparable personal donations. Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google’s Sergey Brin are also among the tech chiefs who’ve paid a personal visit to Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Zuckerberg’s moves could shape the type of content that proliferates on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, enabling misinformation to thrive unchecked. Not only will Facebook remove fact-checkers, but by dialing back moderation on topics like immigration and gender identity, which have already been the subject of rampant right-wing conspiracy theories, it could exacerbate an existing mis- and disinformation problem.
X, formerly known as Twitter, has also rolled back its content moderation since Trump ally and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over the site in late 2022. Since then, Musk elevated Community Notes as a way to crowdsource fact-checks.
Community Notes has been a mixed bag since it was implemented, says Erik Nisbet, a professor of policy analysis and communications at Northwestern University. Researchers have found that users are likely to trust context offered via Community Notes more than a basic flag from a fact-checker, for example. But Community Notes are often slower than a professional fact-checker, meaning a false post could go viral before it gets checked. Additionally, Community Notes relies on the expertise and interest of the site’s users, whereas professional fact-checkers can offer expertise quickly on a wider range of key topics.

The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes

Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to cozy up to Trump have concerning consequences.

www.vox.com

In other words those so called "Community Notes" are designed to give the online far right trolls more fuel to fan the flames of misinformation before they can be fact checked and censored.
Won't be surprised that more threats against minority & religious communities, plus LGBTQ, & Transexual Individuals will be on the rise with these "Community Notes" replacing The Real Fact Checkers!!

 

[basketcase]

A guy constantly quoting randos on twitter is complaining that facebook is going to the Twitter model?

 

[Frankfooter]

In other words those so called "Community Notes" are designed to give the online far right trolls more fuel to fan the flames of misinformation before they can be fact checked and censored.
Won't be surprised that more threats against minority & religious communities, plus LGBTQ, & Transexual Individuals will be on the rise with these "Community Notes" replacing The Real Fact Checkers!!

Absolutely, its going to be crazy for the foreseeable future.

They are acting like they are getting in line to do trump's bidding, but really, both of them have wanted to go this way for a while.
Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he'd do to the media if elected

 

[The Oracle]

A study done by the Washington Post found that community notes are four times more likely to be approved on posts from Republican politicians than from Democrats.

So a left wing paper said this eh?...I mean really lol.