FaceBook’s Flip Flop

Good bye to all that?

In the days leading up to the incoming Trump administration, Mark Zuckerberg reversed his stance on fact-checking. 

In a video announcing these changes, Zuckerberg admitted that their efforts to address this issue had created more problems than they resolved. 

He stated that he would be replacing fact-checkers with community notes, similar to those used on X (formerly Twitter). “The fact-checkers have been too politically biased and have eroded more trust than they have built,” Zuckerberg said.

Facebook filters scanned posts and took down any possible policy violations.  “The problem is that the filters make mistakes, and they take down a lot of content that they shouldn't,” said Zuckerberg. They sure did when it came to the pandemic. 

In November 2020, Facebook marked one of our articles published in The Spectator as potential misinformation with the explanation: “Independent fact-checkers reviewed the information and said it was missing context and could mislead people.” Then, they incl…