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"In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory, Meta chief executive Mark
Zuckerberg fired the fact-checking team for his company’s social media
platforms. At the same time, he reversed Facebook’s turn away from political
content.
The decision is widely viewed as placating an incoming president with a known
penchant for mangling the truth.
Meta will replace its fact-checkers with the “community notes” model used by X,
the platform owned by avid Trump supporter Elon Musk. This model relies on
users to add corrections to false or misleading posts.
Musk has described this model as “citizen journalism, where you hear from the
people. It’s by the people, for the people.”
For such an approach to work, both citizen journalists and their readers need
to value good-faith deliberation, accuracy and accountability. But our new
research shows social media users may not be the best crowd to source in this
regard."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
