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Getting your community to fact-check is certainly cheaper.

auadix 2y ago
Back to our roots of free work, sorry, expression.
freehorse 2y ago
Also it opens a new field of commercialization in the social media space, in a time where troll farms seem like a legitimate business.
UncleMeat 2y ago
This isn't about saving money on tooling or reviewers. This is about the incoming Trump administration and not wanting to have him decide to point his administration at Facebook because he is pissed at them.
- DougN7 2y ago
  This is exactly right. All hail Trump. All bow and worship Trump. We’re watching in real time a phenomena that I think is not new to the world, but new to America.
  - selectodude 2y ago
    Once they go after somebody like Mark Cuban and Khodorkovsky him, it’ll all make sense.
phatfish 2y ago
Or rather, the anonymous hive-mind is now deciding if something is factually correct. Completely unaccountable, perfect for social media.
- mrcsd 2y ago
  So, just like normal then? I don't disagree with being cynical about social media, but community belief is the overwhelming mechanism by which fact is decided throughout history, including now.
  - phatfish 2y ago
    A community can certainly have beliefs, doesn't make them true in a factual sense. Some things are "decided" by the majority opinion, like how we think of gender. Others have an objective truth, whether the majority likes it or not.
  - chimprich 2y ago
    "Community belief", or the appearance of it, can be engineered by a bad actor with sufficient resources: an authoritarian state, a think-tank with sufficiently rich sponsors, or the platform itself.
raverbashing 2y ago
Honestly one thing that works well on Twitter is community notes (and better than "fact checking")
bitshiftfaced 2y ago
The technology now exists that allows the company to offload the ugly business of "fact checking" onto users. It's a pretty clever algorithm, and if they implement it transparently like on X, then it means they can avoid a whole class of criticisms and accusations. This is a no brainer for Meta.

Back to our roots of free work, sorry, expression.

Also it opens a new field of commercialization in the social media space, in a time where troll farms seem like a legitimate business.

UncleMeat 2y ago

This isn't about saving money on tooling or reviewers. This is about the incoming Trump administration and not wanting to have him decide to point his administration at Facebook because he is pissed at them.

DougN7 2y ago
This is exactly right. All hail Trump. All bow and worship Trump. We’re watching in real time a phenomena that I think is not new to the world, but new to America.
- selectodude 2y ago
  Once they go after somebody like Mark Cuban and Khodorkovsky him, it’ll all make sense.

phatfish 2y ago

Or rather, the anonymous hive-mind is now deciding if something is factually correct. Completely unaccountable, perfect for social media.

mrcsd 2y ago
So, just like normal then? I don't disagree with being cynical about social media, but community belief is the overwhelming mechanism by which fact is decided throughout history, including now.
- phatfish 2y ago
  A community can certainly have beliefs, doesn't make them true in a factual sense. Some things are "decided" by the majority opinion, like how we think of gender. Others have an objective truth, whether the majority likes it or not.
- chimprich 2y ago
  "Community belief", or the appearance of it, can be engineered by a bad actor with sufficient resources: an authoritarian state, a think-tank with sufficiently rich sponsors, or the platform itself.

raverbashing 2y ago

Honestly one thing that works well on Twitter is community notes (and better than "fact checking")

bitshiftfaced 2y ago

The technology now exists that allows the company to offload the ugly business of "fact checking" onto users. It's a pretty clever algorithm, and if they implement it transparently like on X, then it means they can avoid a whole class of criticisms and accusations. This is a no brainer for Meta.