Facebook Dumping Fact-Checking Promotes Trump Lies and Disinformation

from WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast · host Scott Harris

Interview with Ahmed Baba, a journalist and columnist at The Independent, conducted by Scott Harris.Ahmed Baba talks about his recent article, “How Zuckerberg’s Meta Policy Changes Empower Trump’s Disinfo Machine,” re: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook will abandon professional third-party content moderation and fact-checking in favor of the user-generated “Community Notes” model Elon Musk uses.

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