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Table of Contents

Out With the Fact Checkers.
What Happened.
Timing is Everything.
Balancing Different Errors.
Truth and Reconciliation.
Fact Check Fact Check.
Mistakes Will Be Made.
Where We Go From Here.

Out With the Fact Checkers

Mark Zuckerberg has decided that with Donald Trump soon to be in office, he is allowed to care about free speech again. And he has decided it is time to admit that what was called ‘fact checking’ meant he had for years been running a giant hugely biased, trigger-happy and error prone left-wing censorship and moderation machine that had standards massively out of touch with ordinary people and engaged in automated taking down of often innocent accounts.

He also admits that the majority of censorship in the past has flat out [...]

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Outline:

(00:08) Out With the Fact Checkers

(01:21) What Happened

(04:05) Timing is Everything

(05:29) Balancing Different Errors

(06:25) Truth and Reconciliation

(08:06) Fact Check Fact Check

(11:33) Mistakes Will Be Made

(16:11) Where We Go From Here

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First published:
January 17th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Mdeszo3C44qEAXB8y/meta-pivots-on-content-moderation

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“Meta Pivots on Content Moderation” by Zvi

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