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: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday January 09, @09:09PM
From Heinlein
Which book? I have several. Have you read the short story Jerry was a man? Most racist piece of fiction I ever read. That didn't affect the quality of the story, though, or make him any less of a writer.
As to the cartoon, why didn't the open source guy just say "I refuse to pay good money for a thing that advertises to me after I've paid them when I can get a superior product for free"?
I had to use Word before I retired. Not a bad word processor, but I prefer both Open Office and Libre Office. Photoshop? Phuk that! GIMP FTW! Do I look like Elon Musk?? Photoshop is stupidly priced for stupid people with too much money.
Oh, and you can save an Oo or Lo to a .DOC file readable by Word; none of the periodicals will take anything but that and RTF (which Word always mangles). Microsoft produces shitty software that people who have had nothing else think is professional. Guess what? I only have to boot the Linux computer when I want to, the OS never forces me, and only asks when it updates the kernel.
Microsoft is a synonym for "shit".
A man legally forbidden from possessing a firearm is in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. Have a nice day.