Re:Facebook page unpublished with no warning
by throwawaylinux on Friday January 28, 2022 @08:52PM
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"Fact checkers" would be hilarious if they weren't so effective at fooling the gullible. I don't know why exactly they sprung up, I guess people eventually started to cotton on that news and internet corporations were not exactly on the up and up. So calling something news or journalism no longer cuts it. We now have another layer called "fact checking" and millions of people fell for it. Pretty soon it's going to be "really truthful Science™-based fact checking brought to you by Experts".
https://www.facebook.com/journalismproject/programs/third-pa...
tl;dr there's a system that brings third parties and pays them for this. They're not actually Facebook employees but are generally expected to be journalists of some kind. Still, they get it really quite wrong occasionally:
https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/facebook-urged-to-act-o...
Re:Facebook page unpublished with no warning
by throwawaylinux on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:29PM
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I didn't intend to imply they're Facebook employees or was even talking about facebook specifically at all. Just the idea of calling this stuff "fact checking".
> Still, they get it really quite wrong occasionally:
Don't worry that'll never happen with super-duper science-based expert fact checkers.
Yet after reading all the scary stories people keep flocking to all the FAANG-y platforms expecting some mercy.
You're on a mercy of some glitchy AI and some random, lousy, unreachable fact checker.
Act with that knowledge.