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I give less shits every day about the "freedom" of allowing harm to others.
And Zuck's business RUNS on engagement. If fact check leads to less engagement as the article says, they are disincentivized of any reason to go forward with it. The danger of abusing "fact check" is very real. We pass a fact check law, and suddenly the US gives a billion to an Elon Musk startup "Fax Chex XxX" or whatever and it just labels stuff as woke and deletes anyone who says Trump is on the Epstein list.
Wohoo, 8%.
Pretty sure they could get it to 80% by just blocking a bunch of obviously fake news websites and taking down the accounts of those intentionally spreading them.
Yes, but the fact that it doesn't immediately solve all problems everywhere means that it's useless and we should instead just sling vitriol at each other and advocate for civil war and mass executions.
Is this about Twitter? Fuck Twitter. Is this about Facebook? Fuck Facebook.
Shall I continue?
There’s a big difference between actual fact-checking, and the “fact-checking” industry which is controlled by powerful interests to help sell their narrative.
Most fact checkers I've seen so far have had pretty poor methodology. Mostly a "here are three people on the internet that confirm my point of view, therefore it is fact and because we drew ourselves as the chad wojack first uh... because this is a fact checking site it's the truth".
The reason it's an argument is b cause we can't agree on what a "fact".
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