> I'd like to hear an informed take from anybody who thinks that Facebook's fact-checkers were a better product feature than Community Notes. Zuckerberg's fram

> I'd like to hear an informed take from anybody who thinks that Facebook's fact-checkers were a better product feature than Community Notes. Zuckerberg's framing of this as being about "fact checking" is intentional misdirection. Very little checking of facts was actually happening. This is about moderation. Specifically, reducing the obstacles to posting racist/misogynist/political abuse amd threats. The objective is to make Facebook acceptable as a platform for the incoming US administration and its supporters, while simultaneously increasing engagement with more inflammatory user-generated content. So its primarily a demonstration of fealty to Trump and co, with upsides. Trump and Zuck recently met privately. I do wonder if these changes are, in part, also a quid pro quo for Trump undertaking to continue with the ban on TikTok in the US.