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Meta is ditching fact checkers for X-style community notes. Will they work?
Many have questioned Meta's motivations for ditching fact checkers - but could it be a positive change?
"Mark Zuckerberg was clearly pandering to the incoming administration and to Elon Musk," Alexios Mantzarlis, the director of the Security, Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, told the BBC. Centralised fact checking by platforms risks "stifling valuable reporting on controversial content", she told the BBC, and also leads users to wrongly believe that all the posts they are reading are the "vetted truth". Even after the fact checkers are gone, Meta will still employ thousands of moderators who remove millions of pieces of content every day, like graphic violence and child sexual exploitation material, which break the platform's rules.
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