Your point that community fact-checking has its limitations is self-evidently true. It does not infer however that the “fact-checking” that went on before did better. Actually, there is a good argument that it did significantly worse during the covid-19 epidemic. It was also significantly biased towards narratives agreeable to the left-wing establishment and excellent in calling everything inconvenient to the US Democratic Party “conspiracy theories”, on topics such as Biden’s mental fitness, his family’s business dealings, the lab leak theory etc. All in all, personally I applaud the win for free speech that the cancellation of these policies represent, while fully recognising that some speech is wrong and that the pendulum is probably going to swing wildly in the opposite direction. When push comes to shove I prefer decentralised policies over concentration of power.
Your point that community fact-checking has its limitations is self-evidently true. It does not infer however that the “fact-checking” that went on before did better. Actually, there is a good argument that it did significantly worse during the covid-19 epidemic. It was also significantly biased towards narratives agreeable to the left-wing establishment and excellent in calling everything inconvenient to the US Democratic Party “conspiracy theories”, on topics such as Biden’s mental fitness, his family’s business dealings, the lab leak theory etc. All in all, personally I applaud the win for free speech that the cancellation of these policies represent, while fully recognising that some speech is wrong and that the pendulum is probably going to swing wildly in the opposite direction. When push comes to shove I prefer decentralised policies over concentration of power.