Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This might actually end up being a good thing. If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us. It seems bad, but there are a lot of people willing to correct their misinformation.

  On the flipside, why are people still using facebook.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us.

    This being useful assumes meta won’t be removing community notes they don’t like.

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    • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isnt this better than meta being entirely responsible for fact checking?

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  • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    why are people still using facebook?

    I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I’m all ears eyes.

    I asked the attendees about how they’d feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don’t want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are they old people?

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  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My mom laughs at AI slop

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This might actually end up being a good thing.

    Is there any analysis of the efficacy of Community Notes on Xitter?

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    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No idea, i guess it all depends on the faith of the company not removing community notes.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The community notes appear many hours after the original has been posted, meaning that majority of interactions will be before any notes will be attached. And even the process of choosing the community notes is not transparent, so you can never be sure that the note does its job even after it’d added.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    why are people still using facebook?

    Same reason people are still using Instagram and Xitter. Social Graph.

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  • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because most of the world are Normies that will use whatever comes pre-installed on their phone, or go onto whatever thing their friends are on already?

    I mean:

    “As of 2025, Facebook has 3.07 billion monthly active users (MAU). The platform has 2.11 billion daily active users (DAU), representing 68.73% of its monthly active user base. India boasts the largest Facebook audience, with 375 million users, followed by the United States, which has 194.1 million users.1 Jan 2025.”

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dick.move by alleged pedophile Mark Zuckerberg.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mark Zuckerberg raped my roomba.

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Think you have a typo there. Should say “by” roomba right?

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Delete your Meta accounts, ffs

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• DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mark Zuckerberg carries a bag of his own farts and makes his wife smell them every hour

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wanted to fact check this, but I guess Meta doesn’t have a tool for that, anymore. I’ll have to accept it at face value.

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    • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve added a note that this is true.

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• elguapo@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meta-free since January!

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• Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With all the bots I’ve seen in recent months, I thought surely they already did.

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• OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why have the company do it when we can make the people do it for us!

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• TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s no way this can cause the Earth to be catapulted into the Sun.

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