Meta has HOW MANY people working on "election integrity" ahead of the 2024 election?
The media and big tech are SUPER worried about "disinformation" and "misinformation" ahead of the 2024 election. You know, like the Hunter Biden story they had to hide last time around.
Why should meta decide what are "reliable sources of information"?
Because the alternative is the government decides these things, or nobody does, which means under-moderation (terrorism breeding grounds). Would you prefer the government tell us what the truth is, more terrorists, or companies deciding what to remove?
In my mind, social media sites shouldnt decide what is truth. Thats why I use lemmy.
You haven't answered the question.
Terrorists.
It's practically impossible for individuals or governments to fact-check every piece of information effectively at the scale social media companies operate at. Social media companies have the resources and technology to implement automated and manual fact-checking processes to handle this volume.
They also have the only direct control over their platforms, needed to implement measures to fact-check in the first place. It's their platform, so they should have control over it. They have a responsibility to combat misinformation, given the huge amount of influence they have over politics.
Nothing about the hunter laptop story had any merit whatsoever. You are a great example of why people can't be trusted.
Despite persistent allegations that the laptop contents indicated corruption by Joe Biden, a joint investigation by two Republican Senate committees released in September 2020 did not find wrongdoing by him, nor did a Republican House Oversight committee investigation by November 2023.
And then we get:
People should be able to read and evaluate the information and make their own decisions.
Yeah...fucking no. We had to stop using the phrase "Avoid it like the plague" because of "reading and evaluating the information on their own". We had people saying that covid vaccines contained tracking chips and 5g and all sorts of vastly stupid shit. You, and people like you, are the reason that the general public cannot be trusted to determine what information is factual and what information is not. You can't even be trusted to not regurgitate "HUNTER LAPTOP HURR DURRR"; even though it's already a done deal. You are the epitome of propagandized.
Thankfully, I'm parroting what I see from reality. You should check in sometime.
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-burisma-fbi-informant-lying-6969656f6012780a23a4b8841ce2689b
There has been literally nothing that came from the Hunter Laptop story, and you aren't just naive, you are quite LITERALLY brainwashed. This is quite actively an ongoing embarrassment for the republican party, as they brought impeachment inquiries forward, without any evidence whatsoever.
The only people talking about "Hunters Laptop" right now are the propagandists. You really need to step back and take a good long hard look at where you are in life right now. Because you're caught on the end of that hook. I'm sure you've had plenty of family and friends try to pull you off of it, and you've likely shunned them and only gone deeper into the hole.
Stop. Step back. Evaluate things on a factual basis.
Thanks for that story from 2...fucking...years....ago....
If there was anything there, don't you think we'd have heard about it by now? But instead Republicans ran through an impeachment query with NO EVIDENCE to submit?! NONE?! Says right in your article that security researchers went through it all. So...where's the meat and potatos? Independent auditors have this information - why nothing then? Certainly your precious FOX NEWS would have had solid, concrete emails to point at by now, no?
You can tell how close to the mark you are because Wintermute claimed victory and ran away while Throwaway removed your argument for "abusive language" while using it themselves in the mod log.
What a bunch of serious people here LMAO!
Not a collection of trolls who refuse to engage with the facts.
Nothing but spurious reasoning and culture war bullshit here, thank you very much!