Neil Netanel
@nnetanel.bsky.social
Pete Kameron Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Senior Research Fellow, Shamgar Center for Digital Law & Innovation, Tel Aviv University. Write about Copyright, Free Speech, Media, Militant Democracy.
Reposted by Neil Netanel
One remaining concern for me is that even people who WANT to find accurate information are going to be challenged to do it, because we're going to lose the groups that do this fact-checking work — unless non-profits step in to fill what is going to be a huge funding gap.
January 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
One remaining concern for me is that even people who WANT to find accurate information are going to be challenged to do it, because we're going to lose the groups that do this fact-checking work — unless non-profits step in to fill what is going to be a huge funding gap.
Reposted by Neil Netanel
The study I mentioned above bsky.app/profile/dgra...
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The study I mentioned above bsky.app/profile/dgra...