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Meta Promises to Fight Misinformation in Australia With Same Strategy It Killed in the U.S. to Appease Trump
Meta is preparing for the Australian election by working closely with the government and news outlets that Zuckerberg said were “clearly political” and dismissed in the US.
Infamously, Zuckerberg announced in January in a video and blog titled “ More Speech and Fewer Mistakes ” that the company is ending its third party fact-checking program, starting in the US, and moving the a Community Notes model like the one used on Elon Musk’s X. Zuckerberg’s position that this alleged political push for censorship from legacy media and governments doesn’t appear to be a problem in Australia at the moment, which is relying on the Associated Press and AFP to debunk and fact check content on Meta that the company will then reduce in reach and attach warning labels to. “We are also partnering with AAP on a new media literacy campaign to help Australians critically assess the content they view online, which will run in the lead-up to the election,” Seeto said in her blog.
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