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Not surprising, but disappointing nonetheless. To be fair, I think the main issue is the difficulty and cost of fighting disinformation at scale¹. I think it is also outlines an argument against hyperscale, centralized social networks, and for locally-moderated federated social networks.

Still a difficult problem, but centralization seems to be a blocker for achieving usable moderation and fact-checking.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-checking/meta-fact-checking-facebook?unlocked_article_code=1.nU4.Hbp7.h3F_qv7YcuCo&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=on