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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i read on facebook that mark zuckerberg was a convicted paedophile. it must be true because there was no fact check.

[–] Lemminary 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The community note agrees.

Source: I wrote it.

[–] JoeKrogan 6 points 2 days ago

There you have it folks.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Community notes are an actually good feature of Twitter. It's a good thing they are copying it

[–] acosmichippo 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

why is that? genuine question, don't use twitter.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's broad consensus that's featured there, so it manufactures consent less hard, and more importantly, the fact-check appears attaches to the original misinfo, so it gets reshared with it.

[–] acosmichippo 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

but broad consensus does not mean true.

to me this just sounds like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy. sure, whatever you guys want to believe, go for it.

[–] nickhammes 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you and the person you're responding to both have a point. They're totally passing the buck to their users, but their users will probably be better at putting accurate information than they are. It's a different set of problems to be sure, but I think it's a preferable one

[–] acosmichippo 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

but their users will probably be better at putting accurate information than they are.

"they" (Meta) was not the one fact-checking, it was a 3rd party service. And I don't know why you assume a social media user base would be better at it, especially with highly politicized things like climate change, vaccines, wars, etc.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

They think that because community notes are actually fairly good on Twitter. You'd think that they wouldn't be, but somehow the extremist idiots don't seem to be able to outshout the sensible majority.

Just go on YouTube and search for community notes.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

to me this just sounds like social media passing the buck to their users with no regard for accuracy.

And for free, no less!

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[–] fox2263 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Crowd sourced fact checking so they don’t have to pay staff to do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Instead the "community" can brigade the "verification" and create an even louder echo chamber.

[–] fox2263 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Indeed. People are going to have to work hard to constantly be tackling misinformation like on X.

However it does present an opportunity. Perhaps a taste of their own medicine…

Post misinformation about the CEOs and the like, like I’ve seen a few articles recently about Zucc having sexual issues. Community notes could say it’s true if there’s enough votes or submissions or whatever 🤣

Or like https://lemmy.world/post/24021828

If it’s about the CEOs we can digitally “luigi” them

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's better because people can post notes under the nonstop nazi propaganda. \s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Community notes are an actually good feature of Twitter.

they're really not; they're just a way to harass marginalized people.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Welp, the Last Election ever is over, time to rip off the bandaid."

[–] Duamerthrax 8 points 3 days ago

Did we ever think Zuck was genuine with his UBI comments?

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 24 points 3 days ago

“Community notes”

Provided by the same communities that post stuff about flat earth, mole children, and election fraud.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They didn't remove misinformation before anyway. After the hurricane devastated the Smokie mtns FB was full of idiots claiming fema was buying land for a private mining company, the storm was manmade, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

🤣it was manmade #climatechange

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They’re so close!

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

well lets see if the EU goes along with that change or if they even dare to roll it out here - twitter is already in hot water regarding the lack of moderation and rampant disinformation, adopting that trash model will not help at all.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cancer loves to metastasize

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

*meta-stasize

[–] SlothMama 5 points 2 days ago

Where we're going we don't need facts

[–] Snapz 20 points 3 days ago

Fb guy went to see twitter guy, who is the US president, at an old diaper rapist's fake white house. Then FB guy publicly gave diaper rapist $1,000,000 in protection money and changed fb fundamentally to incorporate a prominent Twitter feature.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The ongoing prostration to Trump continues...

[–] SlopppyEngineer 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Received his order for this at Mar-a-Lago no doubt

[–] CitizenKong 4 points 3 days ago

Straight from president Musk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

zuckerberg has always been a shitty person

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is a full announcement, sounds like they're going on a full Twitter way

A screenshot from Threads

The original post has 1.5k likes and 2k replies so obv not everyone are happy about Twitter alternative just turning into Twitter

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Lmao how does moving the content moderation team from CA to TX remove bias.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It removes potential liberal bias and replaces it with bigotry.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

It removes better wages due to the higher CoL and corporate tax rate in CA and therefore removes bias, obviously. /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Considering Texas's major tech hub including FB offices are based in Austin idk what bias they think they're eliminating

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 7 points 3 days ago

What kinda question is that. You one o' them queers, son?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and our US content review to Texas

So Texas is officially 3rd-world of US now.

[–] felbane 6 points 3 days ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Thank you

Feeling some yikes from this

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So for the . . what seems like hundredth year in a row - anyone who's using Facepals and Xitter please delete it. please. Just. Stop.

[–] GreenKnight23 10 points 3 days ago

almost all boomers at this point.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

In before it's exposed that all the community notes are generated by AI accounts. It's like misinformation theatre.

If before I was born people invented fully cyborg replicants then hid the fact by programming the replicants to spread misinformation about their existence, I wouldn't even be surprised at this point.

Biggest flaw to this would be:

I get why youd keep the sex slaves around. I'd maybe get why you keep around the beautiful people. Smart people, physically fit people, talented people, etc. But why the fuck haven't I been culled yet? The only reasonable answer might be I'm in some fucked up Truman show, but man, these ancients taste in reality TV is fucking stupid. I'd even say genetic diversity, maybe, but I'm childless and I'm not getting younger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

That is pretty flawless reasoning, so it's definitely real and not a Truman show at all.

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