Zuck is also letting Dana White (very public Trump supporter) onto the Meta board. I guess the political winds are shifting but Facebook still sucks and I don’t trust it.
Let’s not forget how they went out of their way to make the FB support groups almost impossible to find if you searched for the exact name. All of the accounts that were put into FB jail. All of the posts that were censored. How they hid the vax injured. Etc. etc.
Facebook admits to censoring legitimate political content
[…] The intention of the program was to have these independent experts give people more information about the things they see online, particularly viral hoaxes, so they were able to judge for themselves what they saw and read.
That’s not the way things played out, especially in the United States. Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives. This showed up in the choices some made about what to fact check and how. Over time we ended up with too much content being fact checked that people would understand to be legitimate political speech and debate. Our system then attached real consequences in the form of intrusive labels and reduced distribution. A program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor.
And they give a nod to Elon Musk’s X (Twitter). Elon Musk is part of the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative on government waste.
We are now changing this approach. We will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program. We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see.