Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is abandoning its third-party fact-checking program in favor of a user-generated approach similar to X (formerly Twitter). The company cites concerns about bias in fact-checking and overzealous content moderation as reasons for the shift.
The Associated Press (AP) — Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X. Starting in the U.S., Meta will end its fact checking program with independent third parties. The company said it decided to end the program because expert fact checkers had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked.
Instead, it will pivot to a Community Notes model. “We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context,” Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post. The social media company also said plans to allow “more speech” by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion in order to focus on illegal and “high severity violations' like terrorism, child sexual exploitation and drugs. Meta said that its approach of building complex systems to manage content on its platforms has'gone too far' and has made “too many mistakes” and censored too much content. CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the changes are in part sparked by of Donald Trump's presidential election victory. “The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards tower once again prioritizing speech,” Zuckerberg said in an online video. Associated Press, The Associated Pres
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