• Eudocimus@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    I have no clue why anyone takes this seriously or is concerned about this. I have seen maybe three fact-checks during my lifetime on Facebook. That was a long long time ago. I disagreed with two of them and I am not sure if the third one said anything interesting.

    Is there a population somewhere I am not aware of, who believes everything they see on Facebook, who will now be ruined by this change?

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      35 minutes ago

      I dont think fact checking was the main reason, moreso that they decided to allow hate speech (e.g. They’re allowing targetted hate against LGBT groups).

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      The usual suspects of Gen Boomer and X that first preached to not believe anything on the internet and yet doing exactly that without an external fact check.

      Personally for stuff I don’t really care, I will always say “Allegedly (…)” before stating something a website says. If the stuff is important (to me or a peer) I might look harder into it.