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This is a case of kissing the ring,
said tech analyst Carolina Milanesi The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously,
Zuckerberg wrote at the time If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not ‘biased’ for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team,
Kate Starbird, a professor at University of Washington and co-founder of its Center for an Informed Public, posted to Bluesky following the Meta announcement The people who you get to participate will be incredibly important,
Yes, moderation is imperfect and yes, users across the political spectrum distrust it, but platform moderation policies reflect platform values,
I believe that the former president should be responsible for his words.”
Zuckerberg repeatedly touted its fact-checking efforts and partners, including at a 2021 House Energy and Commerce committee hearing, where he seemingly called out Trump for inciting the January 6th attacks, saying This was after two years of Zuckerberg being hounded by the weaponization committee,
Jankowicz said, referring to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government — one of the latest tools used by Republicans to institutionalize their complaints around social media and political bias The fact-checking program was never going to save Facebook, but it was the last bulwark to complete chaos on the platform,
said Nina Jankowicz, former head of a disinformation board within the Department of Homeland Security, who now helms a nonprofit organization focused on countering attacks on disinformation researchers Remember that a few years ago, [the social media platforms] all kicked President Trump off the platform. Now, they’re all going to Mar-a-Lago to visit with him because they know like this Trump administration is pro-First Amendment, and pro-free speech, and so it’s a dramatic change,
Our government works best when the life experiences of the American people are represented,
Pettersen said in a statement Would all this be happening if Trump didn’t get elected? Nobody knows,
We’re looking forward, not backward,
said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Senior leadership of McConnell’s personal office will remain: Chief of Staff Terry Carmack, Communications Director Robert Steurer, Press Secretary Stephanie Penn, Speechwriter Sophia Slacik, and Legislative Assistants Andrew Fisher, Dominic Travis, Richard St. Onge, and Will Clark.”
After Trump first got elected in 2016, ... the legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.”
There's potentially a bit of billionaire jealousy,
said Andrew Selepak, media professor at the University of Florida If he's all-in on the Musk playbook, the next step will be slashing yet more of his content moderator numbers,
including those that take down violent content and hate speech Although research supports the idea that crowdsourcing fact-checking can be effective when done correctly, it is important to understand that this is intended to supplement fact-checking from professionals -- not to replace it,
said Gordon Pennycook, from Cornell University Community Notes users are very much motivated by partisan motives and tend to over-target their political opponents,
added Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech In an information ecosystem where misinformation is having a large influence, crowdsourced fact-checking will simply reflect the mistaken beliefs of the majority,
Twitter tried it and can't withstand the volume of misinformation and other violent, violative content,
