Meta will not do fact-checking anymore

Mark announced changes to way it does content moderation across Meta properties - IG, FB, Threads.

The main announcement was a video from Zuckerberg, and then a thread on Threads.

There were a lot of takes on this. Mostly everyone agreeing that Zuckerberg has catapulted to Trump and made worse changes. I think, as do many others, that Meta never had any spine. The whole Meta loves Fediverse thing was a sham. And God bless America!

The noise on Threads was so much that I deleted it for the time being. It might remain

I liked John's coverage of this announcement at Daring Fireball, the best. It was concise, to the point and not screaming, the world is ending. John went over all the points in Mark's announcement.

I agree with him on most points, especially the fact that the problem is not who is allowed to say what, the problem is amplification. If all Meta did was show a chronological feed, then great. But they do not. Meta wants engagement, above all.

The question isn’t what sort of posts Meta is now going to allow, but rather, what sort of posts are their algorithms going to promote, and to whom.

I highly recommend you read it. If nothing else.

I have removed Threads from my phone. This is not a political statement.

1. I caught myself spending more time on Threads. Idle time. So I removed it. I do this with all social media apps. In the past, I have done this with IG, Reddit, LinkedIn.
2. I enjoy Mastodon more now. I did not in the beginning, but it has grown on me. I like the crowd here. The timeline is chronological. If I want to see things from elsewhere, I can go to a tab and look at popular things. What an idea, eh Mark?

It will be interesting to see how things evolve in this space. Will we get an open social web?