Article  Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse

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https://theconversation.com/climate-misi...rse-247156

INTRO: The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking program and otherwise reduce content moderation raises the question of what content on those social media platforms will look like going forward.

One worrisome possibility is that the change could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on Meta’s apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.

In 2020, Meta rolled out its Climate Science Information Center on Facebook to respond to climate misinformation. Currently, third-party fact-checkers working with Meta flag false and misleading posts. Meta then decides whether to attach a warning label to them and reduce how much the company’s algorithms promote them.

Meta’s policies have fact-checkers prioritizing “viral false information,” hoaxes and “provably false claims that are timely, trending and consequential.” Meta explicitly states that this excludes opinion content that does not include false claims.

The company will end its agreements with U.S.-based third-party fact-checking organizations in March 2025. The planned changes slated to roll out to U.S. users won’t affect fact-checking content viewed by users outside the U.S.. The tech industry faces greater regulations on combating misinformation in other regions, such as the European Union... (MORE - details)
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Syne Offline
Oh noes. You mean people will have to quit being lazy and do their own research and supply their own references to counter opinions they don't like?

Welcome to fighting your own fight, bitches. The right's been doing this for decades.
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More likely your glorious leader doesn't want his nonsense wise words flagged as false or misleading.
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stryder Offline
Psyops has been a thing for decades, its only now that it's actually being seen globally in our social media and standard media.

Just need a meme image of men staring at goats or some Space farce one Earth Battalion image.
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