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Fact-checking and censorship are two very different things.

• pessimizer 2y ago
  Deleting isn't fact-checking. Whereas "community noting" actually can make a case for being fact-checking.
  • insane_dreamer 2y ago
    Fact checkers weren't deleting posts and didn't even have the right to do so. They are separate journalistic orgs tagging posts. Deleting is done by Meta moderators, which is something else entirely. I think you also just proved my point that if HN users can't even get basic facts about an event right, how do you expect the average FB user to do so? Goes to show that even on HN "community noting" would be a disaster.
• efdee 2y ago
  Indeed. This was more censorship than fact-checking.
• quantadev 2y ago
  The problem with "fact-checking" is that if it's done by humans at all then it will be heavily biased. With Silicon-Valley people being in charge of "fact-checking" for the past decade there's been countless examples of them doing mass cancellations calling things lies that we all know ended up being true.
  • insane_dreamer 2y ago
    > countless examples of them doing mass cancellations calling things lies that we all know ended up being true really? like what, exactly? please give concrete examples or this is just hot air
    • oguz-ismail 2y ago
      peaceful protests?
      • quantadev 2y ago
        [flagged]
    • wyager 2y ago
      https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-panel-probes-twitter-block-hunter-biden-story-2023-02-08/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-pan... There was a long period where people were getting banned from Twitter and Meta platforms for posting (true) claims about the Hunter Biden laptop story (which was, of course, extremely politically consequential)
      • kiitos 2y ago
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/x-twitter-jd-vance-leaked-file https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/x-twitter-jd...
      • insane_dreamer 2y ago
        Is that your example? It's not a very good one. If you read the article you linked to, you find that 1) Twitter blocked tweets about the WP story, not banned users, and 2) they reversed that decision and unblocked the tweets 24 hours later as they realized their mistake.
        • quantadev 2y ago
          It took the corporate media (CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, etc) a full 3.5 years to admit the laptop was real. It wasn't just some little thing like you're trying to portray it as. It made the difference in the 2020 election.
          • intended 2y ago
• steveoscaro 2y ago
  That sounds like a line from the CCP.