Meta systems were ‘too complex’ says Meta oversight board co-chair as factcheckers scrapped – audio

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social media company’s oversight board and the former prime minister of Denmark, said ‘Meta systems have been too complex’, adding there had been ‘over-enforcement’. She told BBC Radio 4 that she did not think Nick Clegg left Meta, where he was president of global affairs, because of the change, adding she knew he would agree with her

• Meta scrapped factcheckers ‘because systems were too complex’

• Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say

• ‘Trolling free-for-all’: Australian politicians and experts criticise Meta for ditching factchecking

Continue reading…
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social media company’s oversight board and the former prime minister of Denmark, said ‘Meta systems have been too complex’, adding there had been ‘over-enforcement’. She told BBC Radio 4 that she did not think Nick Clegg left Meta, where he was president of global affairs, because of the change, adding she knew he would agree with her

Meta scrapped factcheckers ‘because systems were too complex’

Ditching of Facebook factcheckers a ‘major step back’ for public discourse, critics say

‘Trolling free-for-all’: Australian politicians and experts criticise Meta for ditching factchecking
Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian