NYT Opinion: The Partisans are wrong: moving to the center is the way to win, by the New York Times editorial board

OPINION: Have you tried not having one!?

"Despite performing better ... over 85% of all notes proposed that cite evidence from independent fact-checking orgs are still not visible bc of X’s misguided focus on 'consensus among diverse users' rather than 'factuality' when deciding which notes to show." files.maldita.es/maldita/uplo...

We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.

Deserted By Fact-Checking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is eliminating fact-checking may amount to a double whammy for people living in this country’s ever-expanding news deserts.

.@markcaro.bsky.social, with @gravesmatter.bsky.social and @factchecknet.bsky.social, on the impact on local news of Facebook dumping its independent fact-checkers. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/0...

Carry on...

Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified.

This really builds on @mantzarlis.com's analysis here, though I lost the link somehow in hasty edits www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/zuck...

Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram? As Meta abandons third-party factchecking in an ostensibly political move, the future of facts elsewhere remains murky

How will the EU respond to #Meta ’s / #Zuckerberg 's recent announcements what does it mean for factcheckers worldwide, esp outside the US? According to @gravesmatter.bsky.social, this "depends on how quickly and widely Meta rolls it out beyond the United States." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This also puts me in mind of your article about the lamentable consequences that US politics have for fact checkers around the world, which I’m going to track down as soon as this road trip ends.

cover of special issue "Fact-Checkers Around the World"

Minimal posting these days but I'm psyched to share this special issue of @CogitatioMaC, "Fact-Checkers Around the World: Regional, Comparative, and Institutional Perspectives", totally open access, edited by Laurens Lauer, Regina Cazzamatta and me: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Disputatio 2024, un debat intel·lectual que enguany reflexiona sobre desinformació i fake news YouTube video by Barcelona Ajuntament

Convocados por la Academia Europæa, Lucas Graves (@gravesmatter.bsky.social ; Univ. Wisconsin) y yo, los dos 'disputantes' de este año, debatimos durante hora y media sobre los orígenes, formas y desafíos de la desinformación. Para quien lo desee, aquí está el vídeo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lni...

Very much looking forward to the conversation! Let’s see if we find something to disagree about ;-)