"While companies like Meta employ the services of fact-checking organisations, they do very little else to resolve the problem of misinformation."
#NewInternationalist #552 published Nov 2024, & already superceded by the continuing erosion of reporting standards as the "very little else" social media platforms were doing is now extinct.
When voters don't have access to reliable information, democracy is undermined, which is, of course, the point.
Leftcoastzen 😡 1mo
AmyG Apparently it‘s working. 😢 1mo
Kimzey A friend once told me a funny family story about mistakenly hearing “very little else“ as “very little elves.“ So I will comfort myself with the fantasy that very little elves are doing the fact checking. It's all pretty grim, though. 1mo
Bookwomble @Kimzey Ah! I love a mondegreen! 😄 For sure, it would be better if elves were in charge rather than trolls 😉 1mo
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