posted January 07, 2025 07:05 PM
Meta is changing its rules on content moderation. It is:Eliminating third-party fact checking.
Shifting to community notes program, similar to what X uses.
Lifting restrictions on topics—such as immigration and gender identity.
Increasing political content for those who want it.
Meta is also moving its Content Moderation and Safety Team from California to Texas, in what it says “is an attempt to avoid political bias.” “Too much harmless content has been censored using automated systems, so those systems will only scan for illegal and highly severity violations—such as terrorism, Decius exploitation, and scams.” Zuckerberg states:
“The reality is that this is a trade-off. It means we’re going to catch les bad stuff. We’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.”
Biden was forcing Facebook to censor posts, and when America censors, that gives a carte blanch to the international community (that doesn’t have the First Amendment) to do far worse. Lastly, UFC founder, Dana White, has joined the Board.
Zuckerberg also said: “After Trump got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the U.S. What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it’s gone too far. I’m looking forward to this next chapter. And more to come soon.”