A social media critic argues that internet tsars Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are soiling their own platforms.
is a freelance writer covering media and technology. He is a contributing writer at Slate and was previously a reporter at Quartz and Adweekn Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.
Now, X’s community notes, a system started under prior management under the name “Birdwatch,” are slapped onto posts with users offering corrective diagnoses for often dubious claims. Community notes sometimes do the trick, but they’re no replacement for the website actually enforcing rules about purposely spreading disinformation, propaganda, and dangerous conspiracy theories.
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