Facebook has already contributed to the demise of journalism and this will be the final nail in the coffin,” Nina Jankowicz, the Biden administration's former disinformation czar and now CEO of the US Sunlight Project, said in a statement by e -mail. “Newsrooms receive subsidies from Facebook to conduct fact checks. With that money they can do other journalism. Zuckerberg's announcement is a complete genuflection to Trump and an attempt to overtake Musk in his race to the bottom. Fact checking was not a panacea against misinformation on Facebook, but it was an important part of moderation.”
In what he tried to frame as an effort to eliminate bias, Zuckerberg said Meta's internal trust and security team would move from California to Texas, where X is now headquartered. “As we work to advance free expression, I believe this will help us build trust to do this work in places where there are fewer concerns about our teams' biases,” Zuckerberg said.
X alternative BlueSky announced in August last year that it was also considering introducing a Community Notes-style feature to specifically address the problem of “dog stacking and other forms of harassment.” The feature has yet to be introduced.
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“We've seen this approach work on ,” Kaplan wrote.
But Community Notes on increases the problem.
Zuckerberg, who recently visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago and brought the newly elected president a new pair of AR glasses from the company, also blasted lawmakers in Europe and Latin America for overzealous censorship and suppressing freedom of expression.
“We will work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing for more censorship,” Zuckerberg said.
But critics of Zuckerberg and Meta were quick to decry these policy changes. “Meta's announcement today is a retreat from any healthy and safe approach to content moderation,” the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an activist group formed in response to the creation of Meta's own oversight board, said in a statement.
“Censorship is a manufactured crisis, political pandering to signal that Meta's platforms are open for business for far-right propaganda. Twitter's shift away from fact-checking has turned the platform into a cesspool; Zuckerberg joins them in a race to the bottom.”
