Reposted by Lucas GravesA.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025OPINION: Have you tried not having one!? 1824025
Lucas Graves @gravesmatter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025"Despite performing better ... over 85% of all notes proposed that cite evidence from independent fact-checking orgs are still not visible bc of X’s misguided focus on 'consensus among diverse users' rather than 'factuality' when deciding which notes to show." files.maldita.es/maldita/uplo...files.maldita.es 041
Reposted by Lucas GravesMike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social · 08/02/2025We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly. 261620461
Reposted by Lucas GravesTom Kertscher @tomkertschernews.bsky.social · 23/01/2025.@markcaro.bsky.social, with @gravesmatter.bsky.social and @factchecknet.bsky.social, on the impact on local news of Facebook dumping its independent fact-checkers. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/0...localnewsinitiative.northwestern.eduDeserted By Fact-CheckingMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is eliminating fact-checking may amount to a double whammy for people living in this country’s ever-expanding news deserts. 011
Lucas Graves @gravesmatter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025This really builds on @mantzarlis.com's analysis here, though I lost the link somehow in hasty edits www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/zuck...niemanlab.orgLet’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcementZuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified. 020
Reposted by Lucas GravesJochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social · 13/01/2025How will the EU respond to #Meta ’s / #Zuckerberg 's recent announcements what does it mean for factcheckers worldwide, esp outside the US? According to @gravesmatter.bsky.social, this "depends on how quickly and widely Meta rolls it out beyond the United States." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comWill the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram?As Meta abandons third-party factchecking in an ostensibly political move, the future of facts elsewhere remains murky 286
Lucas Graves @gravesmatter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This also puts me in mind of your article about the lamentable consequences that US politics have for fact checkers around the world, which I’m going to track down as soon as this road trip ends. 000
Lucas Graves @gravesmatter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Minimal posting these days but I'm psyched to share this special issue of @CogitatioMaC, "Fact-Checkers Around the World: Regional, Comparative, and Institutional Perspectives", totally open access, edited by Laurens Lauer, Regina Cazzamatta and me: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... 040
Reposted by Lucas GravesRamón Salaverría @salaverria.es · 22/11/2024Convocados por la Academia Europæa, Lucas Graves (@gravesmatter.bsky.social ; Univ. Wisconsin) y yo, los dos 'disputantes' de este año, debatimos durante hora y media sobre los orígenes, formas y desafíos de la desinformación. Para quien lo desee, aquí está el vídeo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lni...youtube.comDisputatio 2024, un debat intel·lectual que enguany reflexiona sobre desinformació i fake newsYouTube video by Barcelona Ajuntament 071
Lucas Graves @gravesmatter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Very much looking forward to the conversation! Let’s see if we find something to disagree about ;-) 010
