Buonasera, ...anzi si sono proprio offesissimi! 380° <g380@biscuolo.net> writes: [...]
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes/
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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.
[...] «Meta's Fact-Checking Exit Prompts Urgent IFCN Meeting» Pranav Dixit Jan 7, 2025, 8:29 PM CET https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://www.businessinsider.com/m... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- • [Meta] is ending US fact-checking partnerships and shifting to crowdsourced moderation tools. • The International Fact-Checking Network called an emergency meeting after the announcement. • Meta's decision affects the financial sustainability of fact-checking organizations. The International Fact-Checking Network has convened an emergency meeting of its members following [Meta's announcement] on Tuesday that it will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the US and replace them with a crowdsourced moderation tool similar to X's [community notes]. In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, the IFCN's director, Angie Holan, confirmed that the meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, was organized in direct response to Meta's decision. [...] The IFCN has long played a crucial role in Meta's fact-checking ecosystem by accrediting organizations for Meta's third-party program, which began in 2016 after the US presidential election that year. [Certification] from the IFCN signaled that a fact-checking organization met rigorous editorial and transparency standards. Meta's partnerships with these certified organizations became a cornerstone of its efforts to combat misinformation, focusing on flagging false claims, contextualizing misinformation, and curbing its spread. [Meta] <https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://www.businessinsider.com/m...> [Meta's announcement] <https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://www.businessinsider.com/m...> [community notes] <https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://www.businessinsider.com/m...> [Certification] <https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poyn...> People are upset ───────────────── Holan described the mood among fact-checkers as somber and frustrated. "This program has been a major part of the global fact-checking community's work for years," she said. "People are upset because they saw themselves as partners in good standing with Meta, doing important work to make the platform more accurate and reliable." She noted that fact-checkers were not responsible for removing posts, only for labeling misleading content and limiting its virality. "It was never about censorship but about adding context to prevent false claims from going viral," Holan said. A last-minute heads-up ══════════════════════ An employee at PolitiFact, one of the first news organizations to partner with Meta on its Third-Party Fact-Checking Program in December 2016, said the company received virtually no warning from Meta before the program was killed. "The PolitiFact team found out this morning at the same time as everyone else," the employee told BI. An IFCN employee who was granted anonymity told BI that the organization itself got a heads-up only "late yesterday" via email that something was coming. It asked for a 6 a.m. call — about an hour before Meta's [blog post] written by its [new Republican policy head, Joel Kaplan,] went live. "I had a feeling it was bad news," this employee said. Meta did not respond to a request for comment. [blog post] <https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01...> [new Republican policy head, Joel Kaplan,] <https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://www.businessinsider.com/m...> Financial fallout for fact-checkers ═══════════════════════════════════ Meta's decision could have serious financial consequences for fact-checking organizations, especially those that relied heavily on funding from the platform. According to a [2023 report] published by the IFCN, income from Meta's Third-Party Fact-Checking Program and grants remain fact-checkers' predominant revenue streams. "Fact-checking isn't going away, and many robust organizations existed before Meta's program and will continue after it," Holan said. "But some fact-checking initiatives were created because of Meta's support, and those will be vulnerable." She also underscored the broader challenges facing the industry, saying that fact-checking organizations share the same financial pressures as newsrooms. "This is bad news for the financial sustainability of fact-checking journalism," she said. [2023 report] <https://web.archive.org/web/20250108003607/https://www.poynter.org/wp-conten...> Skepticism toward community notes ───────────────────────────────── Meta plans to replace its partnerships with community notes, a crowd-based system modeled after X's approach. Holan expressed doubt that this model could serve as an effective substitute for expert-led fact-checking. "Community notes on X have only worked in cases where there's bipartisan agreement — and how often does that happen?" she said. "When two political sides disagree, there's no independent way to flag something as false." It's not yet clear how Meta's implementation of community notes will work. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Porelli. Saluti, 380° -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.