“Meta has already clarified that, at this time, it is terminating its independent Fact-Checking Program only in the United States, where we will test and refine the community notes feature before expanding to other countries,” Meta told Brazil’s Attorney General of the Union (AGU) in a Portuguese-translated letter.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    622 months ago

    They’re ending it in America, because it’s what trump wants.

    If they end it in civilized countries, it’ll get banned like Twitter was in Brazil.

    • @misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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      272 months ago

      It might turn out that Brazil is one of the few civilised countries in this regard unfortunately.

  • hendrik
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    232 months ago

    Sure, they’re being regulated in other countries. I guess in the EU for example, it’s the Digital Services Act and other legislation which mandate moderation, cutting down on hate and disinformation. They’d need to be sanctioned if they don’t comply. Or leave the market if they don’t like the law…

    • Vanth
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      82 months ago

      I wonder how they determine what needs to be moderated under which country’s rules. If one were to start accessing FB from the US through a VPN set to somewhere in the EU, if that would result in showing the user a moderated feed.

      • @NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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        62 months ago

        I wonder how they determine what needs to be moderated under which country’s rules.

        'They aren’t no garage startup anymore. They can afford enough lawyers in all countries to find it out.

        • Vanth
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          32 months ago

          I was thinking more for user benefit, for those who want to stay on FB. If they could know setting their VPN to a German server would give them German law protections, for example.

          • @NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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            32 months ago

            I don’t know any user benefit. FB is the plague.

            In your scenario I think the user gets what other Us users get, because they use fingerprinting, this means they check more than just the IP.

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          32 months ago

          Plus, both happens. I had content being georestricted and my access being blocked due to companies not bothering with European cookie popups. Similar to how porn sites now block southern US states. And sometimes companies just go with the stricter law and implement things so it caters for different audiences, disregarding if they could be more lax with one country.

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        It should, especially in Germany which has extra strong net laws. For example, Reddit had a special content report path based on German regulations where you have to confirm you’re a citizen. I believe it’s been a thing for years now.

  • @misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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    92 months ago

    All this drama is a distraction to make us believe they had fact checkers before.

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      They did though. It was shit but I can confirm it existed for reasons that I don’t think I’m still under NDA for but I’d rather not risk it… did you know that there’s a conspiracy theory about a Nazi base in Antarctica?

      • @misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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        22 months ago

        did you know that there’s a conspiracy theory about a Nazi base in Antarctica?

        This being a conspiracy theory is so disappointing to hear, I prefer my nazis far away.

    • katy ✨
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      22 months ago

      they did the fact checkers were just from right wing groups like the daily caller foundation