{"id":17187,"date":"2025-01-10T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/meta-never-cared-about-factchecking-what-it-wants-is-friction-free-oligarchy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T11:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:40:56","slug":"meta-never-cared-about-factchecking-what-it-wants-is-friction-free-oligarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/meta-never-cared-about-factchecking-what-it-wants-is-friction-free-oligarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s plan to end its factchecking program is about appeasing Trump. That signals the making of a mafia state<\/p>\n<p>This week Meta announced the elimination of its factchecking program in the US and rollbacks to content moderation policies on \u201chateful conduct\u201d. These measures undoubtedly open the floodgates to more hateful, harassing, and inciting content on Facebook and Instagram. Immigrants and LGBTQ+ communities are two of the groups most likely to be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, after Donald Trump won the election, Zuckerberg visited Trump in Mar-A-Lago and then Meta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/09\/google-microsoft-donate-trump-inaugural-fund\">sent $1m to his inauguration fund<\/a>. When asked for comment about Meta\u2019s policy changes, Trump admitted that Zuckerberg was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/01\/07\/meta-factchecking-zuckerberg\/\">\u201cprobably\u201d<\/a> influenced by his threats to imprison the tech CEO.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/10\/meta-factchecking-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cbc1a96b95223b40a01ea6481be10bb1ac2b9dab\/0_6_3936_2364\/master\/3936.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6b7a863943670474955fa319a74ee0a6\" title=\"Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy\" \/>The company\u2019s plan to end its factchecking program is about appeasing Trump. That signals the making of a mafia state<br \/>\nThis week Meta announced the elimination of its factchecking program in the US and rollbacks to content moderation policies on \u201chateful conduct\u201d. These measures undoubtedly open the floodgates to more hateful, harassing, and inciting content on Facebook and Instagram. Immigrants and LGBTQ+ communities are two of the groups most likely to be affected.<br \/>\nLast month, after Donald Trump won the election, Zuckerberg visited Trump in Mar-A-Lago and then Meta sent $1m to his inauguration fund. When asked for comment about Meta\u2019s policy changes, Trump admitted that Zuckerberg was \u201cprobably\u201d influenced by his threats to imprison the tech CEO. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s plan to end its factchecking program is about appeasing Trump. That signals the making of a mafia state This week Meta announced the elimination of its factchecking program in the US and rollbacks to content moderation policies on \u201chateful conduct\u201d. These measures undoubtedly open the floodgates to more hateful, harassing, and inciting content &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/meta-never-cared-about-factchecking-what-it-wants-is-friction-free-oligarchy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17188,"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\/17187"}],"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=17187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}