This bit on misinformation label effectiveness in today’s Facebook Oversight Board opinion is fascinating.

Short version is: Facebook automatically spray neutral “get the facts” labels on both true and false content (which they did throughout the 2020 election, and always seemed like a bit of a milquetoast non-intervention). They found experimental evidence of label fatigue — that is, people are less engaged with labels when they see them too often.

Full opinion: https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/PAO-SABU4P2S/

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A meta-observation: It sure would be great to see Facebook make the underlying data here available to outside researchers (or at least publish it in a peer-reviewed study).
@yoyoel a meta Meta observation 😉