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Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta's new Trump-friendly policy chief Joel Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas:
"We've seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see." Meta said. "We think this could be a better way of achieving our original intention of providing people with information about what they're seeing – and one that's less prone to bias."
The Community Notes feature will first be rolled out in the US "over the next couple of months" according to Meta, and will display an unobtrusive label indicating that there is additional information available on a post in place of full-screen warnings that users have to click through. Like the X feature, Meta says its own Community Notes will "require agreement between people with a range of perspectives to help prevent biased ratings."
The moderation changes aim to address complaints that Meta censors "too much harmless content" on its platforms, and is slow to respond to users who have their accounts restricted. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams responsible for its content policies and content reviews content out of California to Texas and other US locations, instead of wholesale moving its California headquarters like Elon Musk did with SpaceX and X.
(Score: 5, Funny) by shrewdsheep on Thursday January 09, @08:48AM (5 children)
In other words, they will become like SN! We will be bleeding members left and right.
Wait, let's sue them for patent infringement for a gazillion dollars.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Thursday January 09, @08:05PM (3 children)
Wait, let's sue them for patent infringement for a gazillion dollars.
I think you meant SLASHDOT? S/N code is slightly modified slash code. And even if they had filed for a patent, it would have expired in 2017 since patents, unlike copyright, actually follow the Constitution's mandate of "limited times."
Art, like technology, is built on what has come before. Imagine how technology would suffer if a patent lasted for the inventor's life plus ninety five years! That's how the arts are suffering under the evil Bono act. How is that "95 years after death" going to persuade Jimi Hendrix or The Doors to make any more albums, or for Isaac Asimov to write any more science fiction or fact?
A man legally forbidden from possessing a firearm is in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. Have a nice day.
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 09, @10:27PM (2 children)
> How is that "95 years after death" going to persuade Jimi Hendrix or The Doors to make any more albums, or for Isaac Asimov to write any more science fiction or fact?
Because, obviously, that bleeding heart liberal artsy fartsy bunch cares about their children, and grandchildren - much more so than the quarterly bottom line oriented set.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday January 11, @07:20PM (1 child)
In America, the Constitution gives a valid reason for patent and copyright, quote: "The Congress shall have power: To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
Unlike British copyright (Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture is an excellent tome on the subject), American copyright is about progress, not leaving money to your kids.
A patent only lasts for twenty years. Imagine how far back technological progress would be stifled with a century-long monopoly on the technology. That's how the Bono act is stifling artistic creativity.
The first US copyright was fourteen years. The current copyright is a constitutional crime.
A man legally forbidden from possessing a firearm is in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. Have a nice day.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday January 11, @07:29PM
>The current copyright is a constitutional crime.
Agreed. What is remarkable to me is how easily it was extended in clear violation of the language and clear intent of the Constitution, and how hard it seems to be to put it right again.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday January 09, @08:27PM
This is a small community that can effectively self-police.
Every Meta property is a giant bot farm with an attached captive audience.