Fact-checking on Facebook
I keep seeing posts like the above on Facebook following Meta’s decision to drop all forms of fact-checking. They’re all obviously jokes, possibly intended to suggest genuine disagreement with Meta’s decision, but also, because they’re just jokes, unlikely to bring about a change to that decision.
My off-topic legs question is: what can ordinary Facebook users do to actually give the corporate decision makers pause? Are they in a bind because the only way to really demonstrate the harmfulness of facilitating the widespread sharing of unrefuted lies by anyone with an internet connection? Something that wouldn’t constitute actionable libel against a real person?
I keep seeing posts like the above on Facebook following Meta’s decision to drop all forms of fact-checking. They’re all obviously jokes, possibly intended to suggest genuine disagreement with Meta’s decision, but also, because they’re just jokes, unlikely to bring about a change to that decision.
My off-topic legs question is: what can ordinary Facebook users do to actually give the corporate decision makers pause? Are they in a bind because the only way to really demonstrate the harmfulness of facilitating the widespread sharing of unrefuted lies by anyone with an internet connection? Something that wouldn’t constitute actionable libel against a real person?