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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social)

I won't defend Meta here but I have a contrarian view: Fact-checking was not working and facts aren't the issue; belief and belonging are and that's a much deeper problem. Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-checking?smid=tw-share

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)

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Yoel Roth (@yoyoel.com)

Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes “works.” Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point. And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?

Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel.bsky.social)

Then @theguardian.com asked me to give my personal thoughts - which amount to an extinction event for objective truth on social media https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/07/new-era-of-lies-mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media

Exploiting Meta’s Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook and Instagram in Run-Up to Election

Despite Meta's stated commitment to crack down on harmful content, it failed to catch tens of thousands of ads that used false claims and deepfakes of political figures to collect users’ sensitive personal data or bait them into monthly charges.