Zuckerberg In Damp-Down Mode To Keep His Core Business Model

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Of course WSJ will report what Fuckerberg does. Wall Street uses the different but nonetheless supercomputer Big Data business models -- the kind that suck money to those supercomputer owners, and shrink our economy. Facebook's algorithms make profit on a platform where we complain and infight about the economic conditions that Wall Street's algorithms create, and the politics that obscure them both.

Facebook Inc. ... plans to exempt opinion pieces and satire from its fact-checking program, according to people familiar with the matter...

As part of the new rules, Facebook will allow publishers of information found to be false by outside fact-checkers to appeal to the company, said the people familiar with the changes...

The new rules follow Facebook’s acknowledgment last week that it will continue exempting politicians from fact-checks, on the grounds that such comments are newsworthy ...

... the changes demonstrate the company’s continuing struggle to limit the spread of so-called fake news and other misinformation without being accused of stifling free speech.

“I know Facebook doesn’t want to be in the middle of this, but here they are,” said Angie Drobnic Holan, the editor of PolitiFact and a member of the board of the International Fact-Checking Network, which accredits Facebook’s fact-checking partners.

Ms. Holan said she expected that the changes as described would only affect the overall fact-checking program at the margins, but noted that publishers of false statements have a history of arguing that they are opinions.

“There are cases where the line between fact and opinion are not as bright as you might think,” she said.

There are a slew of critics that Fuckerberg is contending with, but his core business model trundles on with no challenger, except Jaron Lanier, five years ago, in his Who Owns the Future? , and this year, in his Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-create-fact-checking-exemptions-for-opinion-and-satire-11569875314?mod=rsswn