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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Guys, the @nytimes.com published this just a few months ago.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

✔️ Money to the Trump inaugural ✔️ Dinner at Mar-a-Lago ✔️ Getting rid of fact-checking ✔️ Putting UFC's Dana White (a key Trump ally) on Meta's board Hard not to see these moves as an effort to avoid being politically targeted by an illiberal president.

John Hatchard
@johnhatchard.bsky.social

Mark Zuckerberg just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media ...

John Hatchard@johnhatchard.bsky.social

#Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Trump #Musk #Putin #Russia #China #XiJinPing #USA #MAGA #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #InternationalDemocracyUnion #IDU Mark Zuckerberg just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media. Abridged (shortened) article thread ⏬ 7 min

theguardian.comA new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media | Chris Stokel-WalkerThe Meta boss’s decision to get rid of the platform’s 40,000 moderators has set the stage for a fact-free four years online, says author Chris Stokel-Walker
Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

That's nonsense. It was a dumb move, but "extinction-level event for truth" is utter nonsense. The fact checking wasn't even used that frequently and appears to have had very little impact.

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John Hatchard
@johnhatchard.bsky.social

There's few people left of that opinion after Musk pulled all the safeguards well prior to the 2024 election. Zuckerberg just opened the floodgates to nearly 3 billion monthly active users. There's a reason why you're on Bluesky rn. It's fucking bad dude. Capitulation to evil.