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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is throwing in the towel on the social media behemoths rigorous fact-checking program.
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Without adequate moderation, even its text-based platform Threads could quickly tie itself in a knot of untruths.
It feels like a win for fascists.
A win for bad-faith opinions.
A win for the inflammatory language that saw the Capitol stormed four years ago.
Few of us are asking why these changes are being rolled outnow.
This all reads like Metas ploy to avoid being regulated.
What does this mean for the rest of us?
Its time to check the batteries on your bullshit detector.
We all lived through the first post-truth era, thinkinghopingit was now behind us.
But now more than ever, your interactions online warrant close attention.
Zuckerberg has tasked us with policing ourselves.
We are the Meta community; its time for our notes.
