{"id":17143,"date":"2025-01-08T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/meta-scrapped-factcheckers-because-systems-were-too-complex\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T11:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:37:42","slug":"meta-scrapped-factcheckers-because-systems-were-too-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/meta-scrapped-factcheckers-because-systems-were-too-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were \u2018too complex\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes move by rival<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The co-chair of Meta\u2019s oversight board has said the company\u2019s systems have become \u201ctoo complex\u201d after it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/07\/ditching-facebook-factcheckers-major-step-back-public-discourse\"> decided to scrap factcheckers<\/a>, as the chief executive of Elon Musk\u2019s X welcomed the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social media company\u2019s oversight board and the former prime minister of Denmark, has said she and the departed president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, had agreed \u201cMeta systems have been too complex\u201d, adding that there had been \u201cover-enforcement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/08\/meta-scrapped-factcheckers-because-systems-were-too-complex\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9e2d39d119805965f27ae8f473c86ecd56e04356\/14_40_5932_3562\/master\/5932.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a5fccb27cf17a2e4d54f2f09678a0beb\" title=\"Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were \u2018too complex\u2019\" \/>Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes move by rival<\/p>\n<p>The co-chair of Meta\u2019s oversight board has said the company\u2019s systems have become \u201ctoo complex\u201d after it decided to scrap factcheckers, as the chief executive of Elon Musk\u2019s X welcomed the decision.<br \/>\nHelle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social media company\u2019s oversight board and the former prime minister of Denmark, has said she and the departed president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, had agreed \u201cMeta systems have been too complex\u201d, adding that there had been \u201cover-enforcement\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes move by rival The co-chair of Meta\u2019s oversight board has said the company\u2019s systems have become \u201ctoo complex\u201d after it decided to scrap factcheckers, as the chief executive of Elon Musk\u2019s X welcomed the decision. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/meta-scrapped-factcheckers-because-systems-were-too-complex\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were \u2018too complex\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}