Facebook is adding a new “feature” ahead of the U.S. midterm elections that will allow “fact-checkers” to add warning labels to posts that they are unable to prove to be false.
The social media platform’s new censorship effort is currently being introduced as a pilot and may become permanent if successful in suppressing unwelcome narratives.
Facebook is letting a small group of “fact-checkers” leave labels on public posts that warn users the information could be “misleading,” rather than add the usually “false” rating.
The Big Tech company says it will apply the warning to information that “may not be verifiably false, but that people may find misleading.”The move will allow “fact-checkers” to bypass the requirement to prove that information is false while they attempt to suppress it.The social media behemoth’s latest censorship effort was revealed in Facebook’s parent company Meta’s new Community Standards Enforcement Report for the second quarter of this year.One […]
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