Facebook is Rethinking Fact Checkers
In a recent announcement, Facebook (Meta) has announced that they will be getting rid of their fact checkers and moving to a system like X’s community notes. Facebook is now recognizing that the systems, for content moderation, they had previously implemented are heavily biased. They are now looking for a solution that is not controlled by a third party, rather, the users themselves. To us patriots, this means no more “Facebook jail” if you post something that a so called “fact checker” does not agree with.
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These fact checkers heavily censored many conservative voices, almost all information related to the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccinations and a lot of criticisms of the Biden administration. While they did “some” good, such as removing accounts for terroristic threats, it seemed that they focused more on censoring anything that swam upstream against the liberal agenda.
In a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Show, Mark Zuckerberg explains that they were under extreme pressure from the Biden administration to censor Facebook’s users. He also explains that he was never directly involved with the various conversations with the administration. While we should be happy that Facebook is addressing this issue and implementing new solutions, we should still keep a close watch as to make sure they stay the course.
A Patriot’s View
I would like to think that this is Mark’s way of ditching a liberal mindset for a more conservative or libertarian view. Many of you have probably experienced, or know someone that has, being placed in “Facebook jail” for your political views. Meanwhile, far-left liberals are left free to express themselves and their views in your feed without any pushback or punishment. It was extremely obvious that this was meant to silence conservative, and more times than not, common sense, views about the world around us. The third-party fact checkers have been the scapegoat for this issue, but remember that someone had to make the call to implement them in the first place, and more importantly not do anything sooner to stop the ridiculous censoring. I fully realize that Meta is a huge company. Systems can easily create errors and situations that slip through the cracks in ways they could not see right away, but years of this type of censorship is stretching it. Again, I am glad to see that Mark Zuckerberg is taking a new stance on this issue but we should keep applying pressure to make sure that these types of censorship do not happen again.
