On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that on social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, fact-checkers will be removed and replaced with a system of community notes, similar to those on X. The censorship mechanisms on the platform will be changed, he said, because the current set up has suppressed and censored millions of users.
The obvious flaw with fact-checkers is similar to Wikipedia notability problem — it outsources decision to "trusted news sources", which are biased mainstream news organizations with insurmountable conflicts of interests due to advertising interests and newsroom political affiliations. In recent years that regime resulted in numerous erroneous fact checks, including and up to disastrous fact checks during presidential debates. As such, moving to a more 'convince instead of censor' model of community notes is a positive movement for free speech. This way, just like on Slashdot and reading at -1, individuals can decide their own level of noise in their information feed.
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