Deactivating In response to the rising tide of social media-spread misinformation in the 2010s, the social media behemoth Meta-formerly-Facebook built machine learning systems that proactively tracked and limited the spread of viral fake narratives. Now, as reporting from Platformer reveals, it's switched those hoax-tracking systems off. The automated systems have targeted bonkers — and sometimes physically dangerous — narratives like the eternally stupid Pizzagate conspiracy theory. By Meta's own admittance, they've been extremely effective: according to internal documents reviewed by Platformer, the machine learning tools have limited the spread of viral misinformation with an astonishing 90 percent effectiveness. Meta hasn't […]

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