Meta (Facebook) trims election misinformation efforts as midterms loom

[Roland99]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meta-trims-election-misinformation-efforts-as-midterms-loom-01659696052

Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches.

It’s a sharp departure from the social media giant’s multibillion-dollar efforts to enhance the accuracy of posts about U.S. elections and regain trust from lawmakers and the public after their outrage over learning the company had exploited people’s data and allowed falsehoods to overrun its site during the 2016 campaign.

The pivot is raising alarm about Meta’s META, -0.58% priorities and about how some might exploit the world’s most popular social media platforms to spread misleading claims, launch fake accounts and rile up partisan extremists.

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Since last year, Meta has shut down an examination into how falsehoods are amplified in political ads on Facebook by indefinitely banishing the researchers from the site.

Hmm....interesting.

FB: Nothing to see here. All good.

[Scrivener7]

1. Because of course they are.

[onecaliberal]

2. Fuckerberg don't care.

[SmittyWerben]

3. There is too much money on the line.

Meta/Facebook take in way too much ad money for political ads to actually worry about their accuracy. Mega corporations always choose the path of least resistance...to excessive profit.

[YorkRd]

4. Always helping Republicans!