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Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes
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This might actually end up being a good thing. If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us. It seems bad, but there are a lot of people willing to correct their misinformation.
On the flipside, why are people still using facebook? It's like 90% AI slop these days.
Is there any analysis of the efficacy of Community Notes on Xitter?
No idea, i guess it all depends on the faith of the company not removing community notes.
Or being brigaded by dishonest reporters?
Because most of the world are Normies that will use whatever comes pre-installed on their phone, or go onto whatever thing their friends are on already?
I mean:
"As of 2025, Facebook has 3.07 billion monthly active users (MAU). The platform has 2.11 billion daily active users (DAU), representing 68.73% of its monthly active user base. India boasts the largest Facebook audience, with 375 million users, followed by the United States, which has 194.1 million users.1 Jan 2025."
Same reason people are still using Instagram and Xitter. Social Graph. FB has 3B MAU.
The idea of this being useful assumes meta won't be removing community notes they don't like.
Ding ding ding the only note would be the one that align with the master
Isnt this better than meta being entirely responsible for fact checking?
My mom laughs at AI slop
I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone https://gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I'm all ~~ears~~ eyes.
I asked the attendees about how they'd feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don't want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.
Are they old people?
They're normal people. This is a common reaction. Most people don't give two shits about half the stuff we care about here on Lemmy. Nobody here is an average web user.
I wondered because Facebook. Mostly only know old people using it these days. Boomers and people who were young enough to have grown up using it when it first came out.
I cant even get my wife to quit using Facebook. She knows why I don't use it, and she just doesn't give a crap about privacy. I have lost my temperature before about her constant use of technology that is essentially surveillance tools.
Add the add-on/extension NoScript to her browser and at least have it block
fbsbx.com, which seems to be totally unnecessary to allow, as the rest of the website seems to still function perfectly fine.There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don't think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.
The community notes appear many hours after the original has been posted, meaning that majority of interactions will be before any notes will be attached. And even the process of choosing the community notes is not transparent, so you can never be sure that the note does its job even after it'd added.