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Nathan Carpenter Jan 31, 2025

@clive truly, the potato chip of video games

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Nathan Carpenter Jan 19, 2025

@defaultmediatransmitter "O Fortuna" from Orff's Carmina Burana blaring in the background

Nathan Carpenter Jan 7, 2025

This is exactly the issue - not to mention that the gamification of fact-checking offloads all responsibility to the users in ways that only drive additional attention to bad actors. It's a lose-lose scenario for truth.

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Nathan Carpenter Jan 7, 2025

I'll bite on this. I agree that fact-checking has not been ideal, but we have to recognize Meta's dissolution of its fact-checking program for what it is: the final blow in a series of attacks on transparency and accountability that included lawsuits against researchers and closing of CrowdTangle.

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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

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Nathan Carpenter Jan 7, 2025

I can't wait to see how Meta's new "community notes" feature handles this when the name change somehow becomes law (*sarcasm*)

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Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)

Oh no this used to be a joke [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Nathan Carpenter Jan 7, 2025

If there's *ONE* thing Facebook... (*cough*) I mean Meta.... is good at, it's the ability to go all-in on unproven concepts.

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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?

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Nathan Carpenter Jan 7, 2025

"Extinction-level event for truth on social media" ... yup, that pretty much sums it up.

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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

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Nathan Carpenter Nov 25, 2024

Got out early this morning to surf cast on the Outer Banks. Didn't catch anything, but was rewarded with plenty of other wildlife, including dolphins, horseshoe crabs, pelicans, cormorants, and the biggest seashell I've ever found.

Nathan Carpenter Nov 19, 2024

Alfred Twu Nov 19, 2024

United we stand, divided we fall.

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Nathan Carpenter Nov 7, 2024

@kissane after yesterday's despair, I woke up feeling similar gratitude. Thank you for expressing it!