This week, Facebook introduced a new feature for Instagram and Threads users that will allow them to deprioritize fact-checked content in their feeds.
While this tool will let users choose what to do with controversial content, some critics say it could also serve as a fast-track to censorship.
According to Facebook, it's giving users three options for what to do with fact-checked content: reduce, reduce more, and don't reduce.
Theoretically, this tool could both crack down on misinformation and give users a valuable set of controls for the content they see.
Some activists are claiming this tool could be used to censor content around hot-button topics like the Israel-Hamas war.
As always, there's no good answer for Facebook, and even when it tries to protect users from harmful content, it ends up offending another group in the process.
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This Cyber News was published on facecrooks.com. Publication date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:13:05 +0000