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Zuckerberg's company will abandon fact-checking on social networks in favor of notes from users
US corporation Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will end its fact-checking program through trusted partners and replace it with a Community Notes system in which users can leave notes on other people's posts. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about this on January 7.
“We will go back to basics: reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free speech on our platforms. More specifically, we're going to eliminate fact checkers and replace them with comments from users, like on Platform X, starting in the US,” Zuckerberg said.
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As NBC News notes, Facebook's fact-checking system, launched in 2016, relied on the work of third-party experts certified by the International Fact-Checking Network and the European Verification Standards Network. Now, the corporation intends to "rely on users to report violations." Zuckerberg claims that the content moderation systems on the Meta platforms "made too many mistakes" that led to censorship.
“We have developed sophisticated systems for content moderation, but the downside to such systems is that they can make mistakes. Even if they accidentally block just 1% of messages, it affects millions of people. Now we have come to the point where there are too many errors and cases of censorship,” he said.
On Meta platforms, he said, censorship restrictions on sensitive topics, including migration and gender issues, will be lifted. Social networks will also return recommendations for political content to users who “want to see it again.” Zuckerberg added that Meta will work with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump to combat social media censorship by other governments.
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In a conversation with a journalist from the Dozhd TV channel, Ilya Ber, editor-in-chief of the Verified Media project and Facebook fact checker, criticized Meta’s new policy on content moderation on social networks. He says the Community Notes model is “a big step backwards.”
“Fact-checking is in no way censorship. This is not true, it equates the two phenomena,” says Behr.
He noted that the task of fact checkers is to check this or that fact, and what to do next with this information is decided by the platform itself.
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