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It's much more complicated than that. Here's the white paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15723
Philip Cross is very pleased to hear that!
But, for the record, they regularly get sued. I think they are being seriously sued in India for defamation at the moment, for example.
Why do you think facebook is ending fact-checkers now? Editors are hired by facebook, facebook is the publisher. If facebook publishes "fact" and people get harmed as result, Facebook gets sued to bankruptcy. There is no protection from government anymore!
What a nice reality would it be where Facbook could be actually sued to bankruptcy for whatever reason, let alone such minor one. Sadly it's not our reality.
Suing Wikipedia would be like suing email and SMTP protocol!
The structural reason that you can't sue email is that email is not an "anyone", it's an abstract concept. How would you even e.g. notify "email" that it is under litigation?
Wikipedia (or more precisely, the Wikimedia Foundation that owns it) is.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._W...
edit: My bad, I get the joke now.
There is no such thing. If your understanding of truth is so flat, you're incredibly ignorant and dangerously foolish. Biases, perception, and propaganda influence the "truth" you see in the world. And no one is immune to it. Even large groups of very smart people are not immune to it. In fact they're even more often prone to groupthink.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/27/facebook-...
IDK if you intended to compare this to the world's #1 comprehensive and trustworthy repository of information.
But if you did, mission accomplished.
No. Community Notes is an open-source peer review-like system but designed in a way to limit bias: When sets of note contributors (the peers in this case) who normally strongly oppose each other’s views on Topic A strongly agree on a point made re Topic A, we’re likely getting closer to the truth.
The code for its implementation is literally available on GitHub [0] under the Apache License 2.0.
The case in question did NOT go to trial, so your claim isn’t entirely correct, but yes, all mainstream “news” outlets (including Fox) abuse our trust by constantly lying to us—I don’t watch or trust any of them.
I remember when Rachel Maddow told us, “Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus? The virus does not infect them; the virus cannot then use that person to go anywhere else.” [0]
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Civil-Opinio...
The claim that the president was a Russian spy was never made afaik. But if you have evidence of a fact checker saying this, I’d appreciate it.
I think you aren’t going to find it because overlapping fact checkers with news media is a slippery thing.
News media is going to be combining opinion and news, to push an angle.
Fact checkers are wont. I suspect you are shifting your ire from media, to fact checkers, which wouldn’t be fair.
However if there was a fact check that said Trump was a Russian plant? That would negate my contention.
I didn’t save the links, so no, I don’t have evidence ready to show you, and it’s not like I can just go to their websites and see an accurate history of their conclusions on specific claims, given that many of them have a history of simply burying their original conclusions once it becomes obvious they were wrong (e.g., [0]).
[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/12/27/in-200...