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Facebook and Fact Checking

theprestige said:
You seem to be arguing that Facebook's fact checkers weren't doing anything and were a waste of money. But you're mad they're cutting their losses?
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Did I say I was mad? I completely understand what Meta is doing here, and the reasons for it. To a certain extent I think it is justifiable, if it weren't for those pesky partisan humans who will be writing those community notes. The theory is sound. I'm a little surprised that Zuck went this way after seeing what happened to Xitter, but if he's gone full-on MAGA like Musk did, it's understandable.
 
When I was still using FB over a year ago, got dinged for sarcastic comments as though they were real. FB AI had not learned humour. Been off FB and all socials since then.
 
Still can't get over the time one of the model-building club members got dinged because of racist content because he posted pictures of his 1/350 scale Bismarck which had Swastikas painted on the bow and stern. In fact, any WWII Luftwaffe aircraft had to be carefully photographed if they had Swastikas on their tail fins. Never took FB seriously after that.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
On scammers, drugs and fraud; only when LEO starts snooping around, on the other two; only when public outcry gets too high.
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I've given up on reporting scammers on fakebook- every report is 'we have checked that post, and found it didn't breach our community guidelines'- well hell I wasn't aware that fakebook even HAD community guidelines- well not ones that any sane community would want...

Its a cesspool, only marginally netter than 'the place formerly known as twitter'
(funnily enough, I use fakebooks messenger to keep in contact with friends and family, but I don't bother looking at the actual F/B app or homepage lol)
 
Dabop said:
I've given up on reporting scammers on fakebook- every report is 'we have checked that post, and found it didn't breach our community guidelines'- well hell I wasn't aware that fakebook even HAD community guidelines- well not ones that any sane community would want...

Its a cesspool, only marginally netter than 'the place formerly known as twitter'
(funnily enough, I use fakebooks messenger to keep in contact with friends and family, but I don't bother looking at the actual F/B app or homepage lol)
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The only meta owned programme I use is Whatsapp, and I resisted that for absolute ages until it basicly became necessary for a work sponsored postgraduate cert. At least it is, for now, fully encrypted.
 
theprestige said:
I think you're all missing the big deal here: This was done at the behest of an authoritarian government executive.

Zuckerberg didn't believe in it. Facebook didn't believe in it. It wasn't a service Facebook users actually wanted. It wasn't good for business. The only reason Facebook did it was to preserve some amount of autonomy in the face of pressure from the executive branch. As soon as that pressure lessened with the prospect of a different administration taking office, Meta dropped the whole thing.

The truth is, nobody actually wants some government-mandated corporate thought police goons injecting themselves into their conversations to enforce Correct Thought. They want it to happen to everyone else, but not enough to pay extra for it. Which is why Meta dropped it like a hot potato the moment they could. It costs money, without any commensurate business payoff - neither for Facebook's users nor its advertisers.

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I suppose the other hypothesis is that this was a pure Invisible Hand play by Meta. They tried a business strategy, saw it didn't pay off, and abandoned it. The correlation with current sociopolitical vicissitudes is entirely coincidental.
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Relax, JD, your daddy isn't here to be impressed. While you're at it, get a suit that fits and wear your tie at the proper length.
 
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