
Memes with humor (and bad temper): this is how the network reacts to the end of “fact-checking” in Meta
That Meta has made the decision to cancel its data verification program in the United States has logically shocked a good number of users, who understand the changes in content moderation on Facebook and Instagram with a kind of capitulation by Mark Zuckerberg to try to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated president of the United States next week. However, in the network of networks, the anger over the elimination of “fact-checking” in Meta is largely sheltering itself behind a sense of humor (not without bad temper), which finds its perfect better half in the memes. Over the last week, social networks have been filled with memes that harshly criticize (without giving up a sense of humor) Meta’s decision to make its content moderation policy on Facebook and Instagram more lax.
With the ultimate goal of bringing freedom of expression back to the forefront on these two platforms, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced last week the abolishing the company’s fact-checking program across the pond.
Content moderation on Facebook and Instagram, assumed overseas since 2016 by independent “fact-checking” organizations, will be replaced in the United States by the so-called “community notes”. Under the new content moderation system announced by Meta in the United States, it will be the users themselves who will warn other users of the lies and inaccuracies spread through the social networks of the company led by Mark Zuckerberg. Elon Musk’s social network
The network of networks reacts with anger mixed with a sense of humor to the changes in Meta
When Mark Zuckerberg explained the reasons that had motivated the cancellation of Meta’s data verification program last week, he assured that “fact-checkers were simply too politicized” and they would have contributed to destroying confidence in Meta more than shoring it up. The CEO of Meta also went so far as to label as censorship the work carried out by the “fact-checking” organizations with which Meta collaborated until very recently in the United States.
In this way, Zuckerberg endorsed the rhetoric usually used by Donald Trump.which in the past has repeatedly accused Meta and its CEO of censoring conservative politicians on Facebook and Instagram.
The fact that Meta has turned to the right to supposedly please Trump, whose inauguration ceremony Mark Zuckerberg is expected to attend, has angered many users on social networks, in recent days they have been flooded with memes as comical as they are malicious that shoot bullets at the company and its CEO and also use “fake news” as a stylistic resource. Below we review some of the best memes born in the heat of Meta’s controversial decision to terminate its “fact-checking” program in the United States.
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