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posted by hubie on Thursday January 09, @06:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the fact-checking-the-fact-checkers dept.

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.

Also at BBC, MSN and NYP.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday January 09, @01:14PM (11 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday January 09, @01:14PM (#1388045)

    The judgement will be made by the community - which is good.

    Or by a hoard of bots pretending to be "the community". The bots could be run by politicians, government intel agencies, major corporations, terrorist groups, etc, but if they're seen as a method of influencing what a significant number of people see as the truth they are guaranteed to exist.

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday January 09, @01:35PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 09, @01:35PM (#1388047) Journal

    Well that was the point that I was making with the rest of that paragraph, but perhaps I did not express it very well.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday January 09, @06:24PM (9 children)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Thursday January 09, @06:24PM (#1388088) Journal

    Or by a hoard of bots pretending to be "the community"

    And even if "the community" isn't bots, no way does this go well. If you want an illustration of how well stuff goes when "the community" decides what "the truth" is, you don't have to look further than our last election. I really never thought I'd ever have this little hope for my country.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by DadaDoofy on Thursday January 09, @08:38PM (8 children)

      by DadaDoofy (23827) on Thursday January 09, @08:38PM (#1388129)

      Oh yeah, it's much better when "fact checkers" with a hard left political bias decide what "the truth" is. Heh heh. Thankfully, and not a moment too soon, that became too bitter a pill for even Mark Zuckerberg to swallow.

      • (Score: 5, Informative) by mcgrew on Thursday January 09, @08:52PM (6 children)

        by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday January 09, @08:52PM (#1388131) Homepage Journal

        Facts have no political bias. If it has political bias, it isn't a fact. Here's a dictionary [merriam-webster.com] for you, learn the language, alien!

        There is no such thing as an "alternate fact" outside the far right wing make-believe world.

        You remiond me of a Dilbert cartoon where the PHB wants someone to "massage the numbers". A lie is a lie, and Donald Trump is a liar.

        That's a proven FACT.

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        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DadaDoofy on Thursday January 09, @09:26PM (4 children)

          by DadaDoofy (23827) on Thursday January 09, @09:26PM (#1388138)

          "Facts have no political bias"

          Correct, but "fact checkers" granted the power to censor facts that are inconvenient to the political narratives they advance sure do.

          "Donald Trump is a liar. That's a proven FACT."

          Given that every person who's ever lived is a liar, I don't think that's too big a stretch. "It's in our nature", to paraphrase the scorpion.

          https://storymuseum.s3-assets.com/Frog_and_Scorpion_story_text.pdf [s3-assets.com]

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10, @12:06AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10, @12:06AM (#1388172)

            Playing the "everyone sins", versus Trumps level of sin is being stupid on purpose. In other words, weak.

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10, @12:39AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10, @12:39AM (#1388173)

            I would sure like to get to the bottom of this damm COVID charade. I have lots of text backing up the notion that we are all just being manipulated to self-destruct in such a way our assets are legally transferred to the ruling classes.

            Not that much different than the techniques the "settlers" used to get the indigenous population to give up their land in North America.

            • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nobuddy on Friday January 10, @01:22PM

              by Nobuddy (1626) on Friday January 10, @01:22PM (#1388241)

              The irony is your wording indicates you are a covid denier. One of the manipulated. One of those deceived to self-destruct for the benefit of the powerful. You are SO CLOSE to becoming self aware.

          • (Score: 2, Informative) by PiMuNu on Friday January 10, @11:09AM

            by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday January 10, @11:09AM (#1388223)

            > > "Donald Trump is a liar. That's a proven FACT."
            > Given that every person who's ever lived is a liar,

            There are liars, and then there are liars...

            Trump and his team stole political campaign funds and used them to pay off a sex worker so that she wouldn't tell the world (and Trump's wife) about his extra-marital sex acts. Trump then lied about the sex and the theft.

            I'm not quite a follower of these stories, (it is another country from my own after all), but that is my understanding. It was proved in court despite Trump's no doubt excellent legal team.

            You can get lower than that - but not much lower. I think the world outside America is still shocked that the American public voted for such a person.

        • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday January 10, @03:42PM

          by Whoever (4524) on Friday January 10, @03:42PM (#1388257) Journal
      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nobuddy on Friday January 10, @01:19PM

        by Nobuddy (1626) on Friday January 10, @01:19PM (#1388240)

        The reason facts seem biased is because the majority of the lies are coming from the right. The bias in inherent.

        Remember: you disliking something does not make it untrue.