{"id":44332,"date":"2025-01-18T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44332"},"modified":"2025-01-18T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:31:19","slug":"meta-facebook-employees-unhappy-with-canceling-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=44332","title":{"rendered":"Meta (Facebook) Employees unhappy with canceling fact checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. Recently, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook<\/a> and other Meta Socialist Media properties would stop using fact checkers and instead use Community Notes. This caused the Fact Checkers union to go into a blind panic and they called for an emergency meeting<\/a> of their members.<\/p>\n


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Now there are reports that other Meta\/Facebook employees are unhappy with losing their ability to censor anyone they disagree with. Here are the details from CNBC<\/b><\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n

Meta<\/a> employees took to their internal forum Tuesday, criticizing the company\u2019s decision to end third-party fact-checking<\/a> on its services two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Employees voiced their concern after Joel Kaplan, Meta\u2019s new chief global affairs officer<\/a> and former White House deputy chief of staff under former President George W. Bush, announced the content policy changes on Workplace, the in-house communications tool.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re optimistic that these changes help us return to that fundamental commitment to free expression,\u201d Kaplan wrote in the post, which was reviewed by CNBC.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

I wonder if Kaplan, or whoever wrote that press release, understands what it actually is saying. That Facebook was actively censoring people\u2019s speech if it went against the political narratives? Somehow, I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

The content policy announcement follows a string of decisions that appear targeted to appease the incoming administration. <\/b><\/p>\n

I would say that this is quite likely. Considering what a spineless wimp Zuckerberg is, if Harris had won, he would have doubled down on suppressing anyone that he was told to by the Biden and then Harris administrations.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, Meta added new members to its board<\/a>, including UFC CEO Dana White, a longtime friend of Trump, and the company confirmed in December that it was contributing $1 million to Trump\u2019s inauguration. <\/b><\/p>\n

Yep, definitely trying to suck up to the incoming administration. I suspect he trying to avoid criminal prosecution over some of his testimony to Congress. Now the changes Meta is putting in place are a copy of the Community Notes system that Elon Musk and TwitterX initiated a while back. Instead of censoring people\u2019s posts, the idea is that others can come in, review the post and then write a note on if the post was accurate or inaccurate, and provide details backing their opinions. In other words, combating what some may claim is misinformation with more information.<\/p>\n

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One worker wrote they were \u201cextremely concerned\u201d about the decision, saying it appears Meta is \u201csending a bigger, stronger message to people that facts no longer matter, and conflating that with a victory for free speech.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

Obviously, this idiot has no idea how freedom of speech works. If someone says something you think is wrong, you explain why you think it is wrong and provide information backing your point of view.<\/p>\n

Another employee commented that \u201csimply absolving ourselves from the duty to at least try to create a safe and respective platform is a really sad direction to take.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

And here we have another idiot who has always been told they are great and was given a trophy for just participating.<\/p>\n

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Other comments expressed concern about the impact the policy change could have on the discourse around topics such as immigration, gender identity and gender, which, according to one employee, could result in an \u201cinflux of racist and transphobic content.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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Regarding how to deal with some moron posting racist garbage, I\u2019ve always found belittling and insulting them is a good response. Of course, that would mean you would have to put down your little cuddle bunny and come out of your safe space and actually confront reality.<\/p>\n

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A separate employee said they were scared that \u201cwe\u2019re entering into really dangerous territory by paving the way for the further spread of misinformation.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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Progressives and Liberals. They are some of the most intolerant people you will ever meet. Any idea that they disagree with is bad and any information that they don\u2019t like is misinformation. The problem with that mindset is that what they declare to be \u201cMisinformation,\u201d usually turns out to be accurate. The Panicdemic springs to mind.<\/p>\n

These little totalitarians would instantly delete anything that went against the narratives. Think back to when people were looking at the anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine and how to seemed to either block or weakened the Covid-19 virus. Then others started adding zinc and an antibiotic to the mix. The early indications were that it might be good and knocking down the virus.<\/p>\n

Instead of doing things like actual research, anyone who talked about it was basically booted from the platforms and their comments deleted as \u201cWrongspeak.\u201d Actual scientists and medical professionals were literally threatened with prison if they prescribed these drugs. The \u201cGreat Panicdemic of 2020\u201d will go down as one of the worst overreaches by government in decades.<\/p>\n

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The changes weren\u2019t universally criticized, as some Meta workers congratulated the company\u2019s decision to end third-party fact checking. One wrote that X\u2019s Community Notes feature has \u201cproven to be a much better representation of the ground truth.\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure that this person is going to be the target of a \u201cStruggle Session<\/a>\u201d in the near future. How dear he or she go against the Progressive Narrative that any speech that is deemed doublebadnotgoodevilwrong and must be suppressed.<\/p>\n

Now, we shall see if Meta and Facebook actually do move in the direction of more speech is good speech. Personally, I don\u2019t believe it for a second. I\u2019ve been hit with any number of \u201cFact Checks\u201d that have blocked my posts or had them declared spam. I\u2019ve even been threatened with deplatforming.<\/p>\n

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What I think is happening is that Zuckerberg and others are seeing the writing on the wall. For decades they\u2019ve been using Section 230 of the telecom act as cover. Now Congress is contemplating either ending this protection or seriously modifying it. (I think modification would be best. Make it possible to sue a platform of they censor content that isn\u2019t illegal) I also suspect that President Trump explained the new reality to Zuckerberg when they met at Mar-a-lago.<\/p>\n

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