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Well as long as we can't guarantee that fact checking is so secure with such a low error rate, we shouldn't call it fact checking.

That's already a great reason why Community Notes are better, just because of the name.

Aside from that, if the community is making notes, and the government censors or modifies it, the community would be able to find it out. With an internal fact checking department, the community wouldn't know.

Of course the government will still try to take as much control as they can. So this news should also make us aware of the fact that such huge global networks are not a safe place anyway for independent thinking.




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