{"id":67236,"date":"2024-04-11T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67236"},"modified":"2024-04-11T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:41:51","slug":"social-media-fact-checkers-claim-their-work-isnt-censorship-heres-why-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67236","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn\u2019t Censorship. Here\u2019s Why It Is."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn\u2019t Censorship. Here\u2019s Why It Is.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Fact-checking” isn’t just labeling. It tanks the visibility of posts.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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There\u2019s good news, and bad: first, the fact that \u201cfact-checkers\u201d masquerading as unbiased and accurate moderators of content \u2013 while actually unreliable and bias-prone tools of censorship \u2013 are now recognized widely enough as just that, to trigger a reaction from some prominent actors.<\/p>\n

But then \u2013 these \u201cfact-checkers\u201d are reacting in order to double down on their role as something positive, and justified.<\/p>\n

Because there are no facts to support this attitude, one of the key \u201cfact-checkers\u201d is hiding behind an opinion piece. But the claim is there: \u201cFact-checking is not censorship,\u201d a post on\u00a0Poynter wants you to believe.<\/a><\/p>\n

This, despite the organization, which acts to \u201ccertify fact-checkers\u201d via the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), having a project that has resulted in mass suppression of posts on Facebook.<\/p>\n

According to Facebook (Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, posts that get fact-checked\u00a0experience a 95% drop in clicks<\/a>. In other words, even if this content is not outright removed, it is made virtually invisible. That\u2019s censorship by any other name.<\/p>\n

So how in the world can Poynter claim that activities of those it certifies actually result in \u201cadding to the public debate\u201d rather than suppressing it?<\/p>\n

It can, and does. Meanwhile, a\u00a0report recently published by Meta<\/a>\u00a0paints a different picture: the EU that was no doubt happy to share that \u201cfact-checking\u201d reduces users\u2019 attempts to share posts by 47 and 38 percent on Facebook and Instagram, respectively.<\/p>\n

Of course, neither Meta nor the EU are offering this data as proof of negative and nefarious efforts resulting in censorship; instead they are treated simply as proof that Meta complies with EU\u2019s \u201ccodes\u201d and other rules, also in the end producing more censorship.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn\u2019t Censorship. Here\u2019s Why It Is. “Fact-checking” isn’t just labeling. It tanks the visibility of posts. There\u2019s good news, and bad: first, the fact that \u201cfact-checkers\u201d masquerading as unbiased and accurate moderators of content \u2013 while actually unreliable and bias-prone tools of censorship \u2013 are now recognized widely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9336,120,33879,24218,33878,1169],"class_list":["post-67236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-censorship","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-fact-checking-2","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67237,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67236\/revisions\/67237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}