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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/caseynewton/statuses/113829631376304994">Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:00:39 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton" title="caseynewton@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/61006-48-20240126011805.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Casey Newton" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Casey Newton</a></section><article><p>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 <a href="https://www.platformer.news/meta-ends-misinformation-enforcement-zuckerberg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.platformer.news/meta-ends-misinformation-enforcement-zuckerberg/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4376784#notice-8559968">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-15T12:00:39+09:00" title="Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:00:39 JST">about 6 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/113829631376304994" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/113829631376304994">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3918117">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.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/829/631/118/482/084/original/b4cd66b7ece244f6.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/829/631/118/482/084/original/b4cd66b7ece244f6.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.platformer.news</div><h5><a href="https://www.platformer.news/meta-ends-misinformation-enforcement-zuckerberg/">Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States</a></h5><div> from <span>@CaseyNewton</span></div></header><div>The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:00:39 JST Casey Newton
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 https://www.platformer.news/meta-ends-misinformation-enforcement-zuckerberg/
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1. 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.
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  Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States
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  The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down

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