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: 3, Informative) by AssCork on Thursday January 09, @09:00PM (2 children)
If the platform-owner moderates the community themselves, they're a publisher, and liable for the content.
If the platform-owner has the community moderate themselves, they're a platform, and protected by Section 230.
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Whoever on Friday January 10, @04:42PM (1 child)
False. Section 230 was written to allow moderation.
https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230. [eff.org]
""No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." (47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1))."
You have been reading the lies of those who want to get rid of section 230 and impose strict liability on sites like Facebook. They want to take control of all discussions.
(Score: 3, Funny) by AssCork on Monday January 20, @08:28PM
Well pardon the fuck outta me. By the way, I haven't been 'reading the lies' - i read the fucking law when it was written and didn't realize some dumb motherfuckers would tweak it so the government could legally put their first up social media's ass and weaponize ToS against specific lists of accounts.
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.