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submitted 5 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Their "fact checkers" were poorly written algorithms that frequently flagged benign content as misinformation.

I think the goal was to flag benign content as misinformation to push truthful content to the same level as flat earth content.

So doing exactly what was intended.