Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement earlier Tuesday that Meta platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, were abandoning the East German style censorship by “fact checking” in favor of other methods caught just about everyone by surprise; see WHOA: Meta Ends Fact-Checking As Zuckerberg Vows to Restore Free Expression on Facebook – RedState. The most surprised were the people currently grifting off, sorry, I mean employed by Meta as fact checkers. According to reports, Meta’s contract fact checkers only learned they were out of work when the rest of us did.
Meta’s fact-checking partners claim they were “blindsided” by the company’s decision to abandon third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in favor of a Community Notes model, and some say they are now scrambling to figure out if they can survive the hole this leaves in…
