Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model

Post by Toutouxc » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 6:53 PM UTC

multimoon wrote: post #97

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The faster we decouple from societies like american, the better we europeans will be. We europeans defend our European way of life, against the degenerate capitalism of the US.

I challenge you to find another economic system that has worked in history, because it sure isn’t communism if that’s what you’re referencing. This is also aside from the fact that Europe is also a subscriber to capitalism. America is the most successful country on this earth and we bankroll most of the rest of the world but somehow we’re always the bad guys. As an American I’d be very happy if my tax dollars stopped…

Post by autoexec » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

hintymad wrote: post #214

nicce wrote: post #165

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> That's where the censorship starts. It also starts when there is no third-party anymore. Where is the middle line?

I thought there would be community notes. And how would third-party work? The Stanford doctor was banned from X because he posted peer-reviewed papers that challenge the effectiveness of masks (or vaccines)? I certainly don't want to see that level of hysteria.

Post by tptacek » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 6:56 PM UTC

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I get how the partisan story is easy to tell here, but I'm saying something pretty specific: I think it would have been product development malpractice for this decision not to have been in the works for many, many months, long before the GOP takeover of the federal government was a safe bet. Community Notes has been that successful, and Facebook's fact-checkers have been that much of a product disaster. I've never s…

I expect it was an easy bone to throw the incoming administration, which the tech world learned from v1 is placatable by giving them PR / sound bite wins. To the broader concern, this feels like Facebook making their original sin again. Namely defunding and destroying revenue for a task that takes money (fact checking) and then expecting a free, community-driven approach to replace it. Turns out, hot takes for clicks…

Post by hintymad » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

AlotOfReading wrote: post #232

hintymad wrote: post #221

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My answer is don't. If something is subjective, then why bother? "Words are violence" is such a bullshit.

Okay, but you're saying this on a platform where the moderator (dang) follows intentionally vague and subjective guidelines, presumably because you like the environment more here than some unmoderated howling void elsewhere on the Internet.

Post by davidw » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 7:00 PM UTC

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As a product decision taken independently, maybe. Running one of those things at scale with all kinds of people trying to subvert it for various reasons, including some downright evil ones, is not an easy task. Announced together with everything else and given the timing, I just can't help but think there's a political component to all of it.

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