Facebook, Instagram Copying X, deploying community notes
Meta go soon deploy its new replacement for verification of the factsCommunity notes, an original crowd -based tool that will sleep the company’s fact verification team in favor of what Meta lightens is a “less biased” means of limiting disinformation.
The company has announced that the functionality would begin to test among American users on March 18, but the grades of the community will not appear to the public during beta tests. Once they arise, users can expect to see small highlighted boxes at the bottom of Facebook, Instagram and Threads publications, as well as options to contribute their own notes in the drop-down menus on all Meta platforms. The notes will not have author names attached to them and will be capped at 500 words.
“We expect the community notes to be less biased than the third -party fact verification program that it replaces because it allows more people by more prospects to add context to messages,” wrote the company. “These are not majority rules. Regardless of the number of contributors to agree on a note, it will only be published if people who are normally agree that it provides a useful context.”
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Meta’s approach is entirely based on the functionality of community notes which has become central to the verification of facts at Elon Musk, Meta, says that it will use the open source algorithm of X as the basis of its own rating system, with the potential to develop functionality as its deployed. “Like algorithm and information from the X program are open source – which means free and available for anyone can use – we can rely on what X has done, learn researchers who studied it and improve the system of our own platforms,” said Meta. “We will not reinvent the wheel.”
Mark CEO Zuckerberg announced the change of policy in JanuaryBy saying: “The facts of facts were too politically biased and destroyed more confidence than they created … It is time to return to our roots around freedom of expression.”
In February, the company opened applications for what they call a “network of community notes” of facts for verifying facts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The contributors must have been 18 or more, having an account of at least six months and being in good standing. Meta said that more than 200,000 people have registered on the three platforms of the company and have been added to a waiting list in the process – many will be informed that they have been accepted as contributors in the coming days.
Meta also confirmed that Community grades will not apply to paid advertisements For the moment, a decision initially disclosed by an anonymous source in January which aroused greater concern Moderation and hateful conduct policies of the company In the name of freedom of expression. Articles that are marked with a note will not receive any type of penalty, such as reduced visibility integrated into the Meta fact verification system.
