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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 post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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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.
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