Starting today, Meta will no longer fact-check posts on Facebook, Threads, or Instagram. However, the only fact-checking that I have personally seen on Meta is when someone posts anything that counters conservative talking points. Posts were being taken down that discussed Project 2025 during the election.
“By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over,” Meta’s recently elevated policy chief Joel Kaplan announced in a post on X. “That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers.”
As I am not an avid Facebook user in regards to posts or following anyone, I save that for Instagram and Threads, much of the fact-checking that I have observed has been with liberal comments toward conservatives.
Recently, images of someone punching a Nazi was seen often. Now, if you post that image, it is blurred and labeled with an advisory warning. I guess Nazi’s didn’t like seeing that stuff freely online.
Meta to start using Community Notes
“The first Community Notes will start appearing gradually across Facebook, Threads & Instagram, with no penalties attached,” Kaplan said.
Now, as someone that used to see community notes on Twitter, those notes were hilarious when done well. Some community notes even put people like Emo Musk in there place when spreading false information. However, community notes has stopped correcting their fuhrer.
These are moves to placate Trump and keep him off their ass. Much of it seems to illustrate stuff conservatives complain about. While admonishing companies with DEI policies, Meta committed a DEI move. They place one of Trump’s allies on their own board.
I find it hilarious that the only ones that call people snowflakes really lose their shit when someone debunks one of their false beliefs. Social media is only going to get worse and without media literacy, this isn’t going to end well.