By Adrian Kuenzler
Publication Date: 2025-12-19 13:24:00
Meta’s decision to end its professional fact-checking program sparked a wave of criticism in the technology and media world. Critics warned that eliminating expert oversight could undermine trust and reliability in the digital information landscape, especially when for-profit platforms are largely left to fend for themselves.
But what has largely been overlooked in this debate is that today AI models of major languages are increasingly being used to compose news summaries, headlines and content that grabs your attention long before traditional content moderation mechanisms can intervene. It’s not about clear cases of misinformation or harmful topics that go undetected without content moderation. What is missing from the discussion is the way in which supposedly correct information is selected, formulated and highlighted, which can influence public perception.
Large language models are gradually influencing the way people form their opinions by generating the information that chatbots and virtual…
