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Ben Sperry, senior scholar for innovation policy at ICLE, offered perspective in Observador on Meta’s recent changes to content moderation. Read the full article here.
Ben Sperry, a senior scholar on innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), adds another issue to the concerns about Meta’s new policies: the backlash from advertisers. “X tried something different [with community ratings and moderation], because it seemed at the time it was bought that there was a demand, at least from some people, for more discourse, less fact-checking, if you will. And it tried it”—which Meta is now following….“But that doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way.
Other social networks have tried to address speech issues, but Meta doesn’t just have to answer to users, it also has to answer to advertisers.” Sperry notes that the old Twitter “lost a lot of advertisers when it changed its moderation policies.” “Meta might lose too, we’ll see. They might change their minds again.”