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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: 3, Touché) by DadaDoofy on Thursday January 09, @10:16PM (2 children)

    by DadaDoofy (23827) on Thursday January 09, @10:16PM (#1388144)

    "Rather than limit the prevalence of misinformation it will actually guarantee that it will stay viewable"

    Why do you feel so threatened if "misinformation" stays viewable? I know you are from Europe, but are you really so arrogant to think individuals should not be given the basic respect to determine for themselves what is or isn't true?

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday January 10, @07:06AM (1 child)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 10, @07:06AM (#1388205) Journal

    misinformation is, by definition, wrong or untrue. How does anyone benefit from having such information distributed more widely? Intentionally doing so is a malicious action.

    Most people, if they do not know a subject, listen and learn rather than make things up a spread falsehoods.

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    I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
    • (Score: 2) by corey on Sunday January 12, @09:03PM

      by corey (2202) on Sunday January 12, @09:03PM (#1388599)

      I’m with you on that point. People only take in so much information in a day, so if that information is predominantly false, they will tend to take that and reject the reality (I don’t like to use the word Truth because it’s been so badly bastardised and politicised).