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gualdo :privacypride: :cc:

La scelta di #Meta di sostituire - negli USA - i processi di #Fact #Checking con il meccanismo delle Community Notes (come avviene su #X) fa discutere

C'è chi dice che ora l'#UE dovrà modificare gli obblighi di moderazione del #DSA

C'è però il Ministero degli esteri (!) francese che afferma la propria inquietudine nei confronti di Meta e che non retrocederà rispetto alle protezioni europee

Il comunicato si trova qui:diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/politiqu

France Diplomatie - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangèresIntégrité de l'information – Recul de l'entreprise META en matière de modération de contenus et lutte contre les manipulations de l'information (08.01.2025) La France exprime son inquiétude face à la décision de l'entreprise étasunienne META de remettre en cause l'utilité de la vérification de l'information (…)
Alex

Truly effective #content #moderation remains elusive but there's no fundamental reason why #fact #checking can't be community driven. I've seen the power of public collaboration while working in #opensource. Places like #wikipedia show what can be achieved with mostly volunteers.

I do however wonder how many people are going to have the patience to give their time *for free* keeping #bigtech's mega-profitable public spaces clear of kooks, crooks and nazis?

Chuck Darwin

The mainstream media’s “#fact-#checking” of the Democratic National Convention was
⭐️ rightly ridiculed for an obsession with semantics and pedantic nitpicking,
but the result was more than just annoying.

Many of the purported “fact-checks” go beyond verifying Democrats’ statements and instead serve as political spin for Trump,
giving him an unearned benefit of the doubt that almost ignores he actually was president and has an established #record of #deceit and malicious #incompetence.

The error that fact-checkers consistently make is taking Trump’s assertions and denials at face value.

They still treat the convicted felon like someone who operates in good faith, which often results in wish-casting and the “#sane-#washing” of Trump’s blather.

Democrats, meanwhile, are held to an impossibly literal standard where routine exaggerations and rhetorical flourishes are treated like whoppers.

Trump’s statements are decontextualized, while those from Democrats are relentlessly scrutinized.

The impact is a proliferation of false equivalencies that normalize Republican liars.
publicnotice.co/p/politifact-g

Public Notice · What's wrong with the fact-checkers?By Stephen Robinson
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Chuck Darwin

As a child, Mathew Desmond experienced poverty firsthand.

He saw his family home repossessed and endured the stresses and humiliations of his family’s lack of means.

It raised the question that he would go on to dedicate his professional life to answering:

❓Why is there such stark #inequality in America?❓

The hard truth, he said, is that
💥so many of us benefit from it.💥

Desmond shared a litany of statistics illustrating the growing burden of poverty and inequality in the United States:

• 1 in 3 families live in a household that has an income of $55,000 a year or less.
• 38 million people are below the federal poverty level of $30,000 for a family of four.
• Evictions have increased by 22% since the turn of the century.
• The number of public-school kids who are unhoused has increased by 74% since the turn of century.
• The amount of inflation-adjusted, non-mortgage debt has increased by more than 200% -- and the number of families reporting no income apart from food stamps has quadrupled since the 2008 recession.
• Since 1985, rent increases have outpaced wage growth by 325%.
• Each year, people are charged $11 billion in overdraft fees and $10 billion in payday loan fees.

“So, here's one reason there's so much poverty in America today:

because the poor are #exploited,”
said Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Evicted" and his more recent work "Poverty, by America".

“I think it's a word we should use more.”

👉The exploitation is perpetuated, not only by the corporations, financial institutions, and landlords who withhold fair wages, charge exorbitant fees, and profit off those in poverty,
👉but also by affluent Americans who benefit from the exploitation, he said.

Desmond quoted an analogy from novelist Tommy Orange,

“Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they’re jumping.”

🔥The American approach to poverty has often been to focus on those who are poor and what they can do to uplift themselves -- rather than changing the systems that keep them poor.

This can be uncomfortable for those whose #property #values are protected by ⚠️segregation of affordable housing,
those who have invested in the #stock #market and make money when ⚠️exploitative corporations net profits,
and those with #free #checking #accounts that are ⚠️subsidized by the poor who pay fees for their lack of capital, he explained.

The affluent also benefit from government subsidies more than the poor, he said.

According to Desmond, the #wealthiest families in the United States receive an average of about 🔷$35,000 annually in tax benefits, while the #poorest get an average of ♦️$25,000 in subsidies.

These are realized in #mortgage #incentives, special #investment #accounts, like #529 accounts that help pay for college, and other #tax #breaks for the wealthy.

Many affluent families further contribute to poverty by building communities that exclude and marginalize the poor
— pushing them out of their neighborhoods using #zoning ordinances, Desmond said

aamc.org/news/we-can-solve-pov

AAMCWe can solve poverty in America. We just don’t want to.Sociologist and author Matthew Desmond, PhD, says we must divest from the policies that exploit the poor to the benefit of the affluent.
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