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"after the company's own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent, Meta is shutting them off"
caseynewton.bsky.social Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 15
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
January 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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A man is tied to a chair. Two feds approach him. One says "Feed him the gusher!" The restrained man objects "NO! NO!" They forced feed the candy to him and his head turns into a giant apple. A tear rolls down his eye and he says "I used to be a man."
November 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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Yeah same 😂
November 14, 2024 at 12:19 PM