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by newsgourmet 2018 days ago
In Germany Facebook has already given power to "trusted fact checkers" who happen to be extremely left leaning. None of this is a good thing.
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I agree that fact checkers are a nasty can of worms, but here they're only expected to flag illegal content, which I don't think is a comparable concern.
Unless it becomes illegal to post "false information", and the fact checkers get to decide what is false and what is not.