Comment by wakawaka28
3 months ago
Who do you think was employed as "fact checkers" and who paid them? If Zuck wanted biased misinformation, he could have hired people to push it as fact and fact-checked anyone else. It makes far more sense that "fact-checking" and related censorship is antithetical to the foundational principles of the US and a tool of oppression, so we are just going back to normal.
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> Who do you think was employed as "fact checkers" and who paid them?
Legitimacy, or at least a thin veneer of it, so that the Biden administration wouldn’t force it upon them.
Because that was always in the cards - legislation that would legally force these companies to fact-check, or worse, for an outside bipartisan agency to do the fact-checking with no way for these companies to control the process.
>If Zuck wanted biased misinformation, he could have hired people to push it as fact and fact-checked anyone else.
Again, it had to look authentic. But Meta did the absolute minimum amount of fact-checking as possible. Just enough to appear like they were actually doing something constructive, to keep the administration from looking too deeply.
But now? Zuck is doing exactly that with AI accounts.
>It makes far more sense that "fact-checking" and related censorship is antithetical to the foundational principles of the US and a tool of oppression, so we are just going back to normal.
Checking to see if something is truthful is “antithetical to the USA and is oppression”??? That statement is misinformation _in of itself._
America is not built upon a foundation of lies and misinformation, but without fact-checking, that is exactly what Americans will get -- lies and misinformation. Because there is nothing to counteract lies and misinformation except concerted efforts to check them for factual accuracy. As in, fact-checking.
Maybe one day you will come to understand just how important facts are, and how critical it is to ALWAYS have them checked.
Because the only people afraid of fact checking are those who are threatened by facts. Just like how countries who fear the truth target journalists for elimination. There is no difference.
And the left loves facts. Because facts are a manifestation of reality, and the truth. Which is why checking for objective reality and truthfulness is so important for the left, and why the left is invariably unhurt by fact-checking.