I won't defend Meta here but I have a contrarian view: Fact-checking was not working and facts aren't the issue; belief and belonging are and that's a much deeper problem.
Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-checking?smid=tw-share
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In response to this postI wrote about facts v. belief and belonging as the real crisis here:
https://medium.com/whither-news/journalism-belief-belonging-07a8dabe35e4?sk=1c1756c8b60d72d8a91980f4869c6e2e
Meta has a much deeper issue to address around alienation from communities, bigotry, fear, & othering. Fact-checking won't fix that. What's needed is social-science research, and that requires openness and data from Meta, about which they are only occasionally forthcoming.
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