Facebook’s changes promote mainstream media sites, suppress alternative media, and allow biased and misleading political information to spread on the platform.
The conundrum then becomes: who will guard the guards themselves?
Is Facebook really suggesting that they need to fact-check everything that’s uploaded to the group?
The “Click-Gap” algorithm is live now and reduces the reach of content from domains that have a small number of inbound and outbound links.
The European Commission has also enlisted help from “independent fact-checkers and researchers to detect and expose disinformation campaigns across social networks.
YouTube moves one step closer to becoming an arbiter of truth by adding fact-checks and hoax alerts to its search results for topics that it deems to be spreading misinformation.
Twitter is building this feature to protect conversations and ensure a healthy environment on the platform. However, many are seeing it as yet another form of censorship and suppressing discussion.
Twitter is suspending users for tweeting “learn to code” but fails to remove calls to violence from its platform.
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