Mark Zuckerberg talks about the Orion AR glasses during the Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo
THE EPOCH TIMES | Published January 11, 2025
Zuckerberg has vowed to pushback on ‘ever-increasing’ internet laws around the world, including in Europe, where fact-checkers are integral to EU regulation
The European Commission has reacted with reservation to Meta’s decision to replace fact-checkers in the United States with a new “community notes,” system sparking a debate about how the tech giant will fare under the European Union’s strict internet controls.
Meta will begin replacing its fact-checkers in the United States with a new “community notes” system similar to Elon Musk’s platform X, the tech company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Meta on Jan. 7.
In a major shift, Zuckerberg also called fact-checkers “too politically biased,” saying they “destroyed more trust than they created.”
“After [Donald] Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth, but the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the United States,” he said.
He cited Europe as a place of “censorship,” a reference to the EU’s own Digital Services Act (DSA) which regulates online content.
“Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws, institutionalizing censorship, and making it difficult to build anything innovative there, ” he said.
The DSA is an EU-wide 2022 regulation that regulates the obligations of digital services. Part of this requires social media platforms to remove, and take other specified steps to deal with what is deemed disinformation.
While companies are not directly responsible for all user-generated content, part of the DSA’s remit holds platforms accountable for the content to which users are exposed.
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SOURCE: www.theepochtimes.com
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TOWNHALL | Published January 11, 2025
It’s pure schadenfreude. Once again, the media tried to flex its muscles in fact-finding and reporting. Once again, they got their faces beaten in because these people lie. CNN’s latest faceplant is why fact-checkers are being purged from Facebook—these people are idiots.
As the California wildfires rage in Los Angeles County, there’s been legitimate anger and criticism over the lack of water. Firefighters had hydrants either had no water or became exhausted as fires continued to rage.
Daniel Dale tried to argue this week that there’s plenty of water, only to have The Los Angeles Times deliver the fatal blow: the reservoir Dale was referring to in the Palisades was empty when the wildfires erupted:
Yeah, I think Facebook and everyone else, for that matter, will be fine in a world where fact-checkers are no more. It used to be a legitimate beat—it’s become perverted and corrupted by these clowns. It wasn’t even us—the LA Times delivered the kill shot. That’s the funniest part.
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SOURCE: www.townhall.com
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