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#ICYMI: Meta to shift to community notes for fact-checking in US

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This is a similar approach in X.
#ICYMI: Meta to shift to community notes for fact-checking in US
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L), Courtesy: Meta; FB app (R), file photo

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a major change on its platform. The company is ending its third-party fact-checking program in the US which will be replaced with a Community Notes program similar to what is being implemented on X.

On X, Zuckerberg said they empower their community to decide when posts are possibly misleading and need more context. Users from various backgrounds can also decide what context is helpful for others to see.

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, said Joel Kaplan, Meta chief global affairs officer, in a statement.

The Meta executive said once the program is rolled out, the company won’t write Community Notes or decide which ones show up. These will be written and rated by contributing users.

Just like they do on X, Community Notes will require agreement between people with a range of perspectives to help prevent biased ratings.

Those interested can already sign up (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) to possibly be among the first contributors to this program as it becomes available.

The Community Notes will be implemented in phases in the US first over the next couple of months and will be further improved over the course of the year.

As we make the transition, we will get rid of our fact-checking control, stop demoting fact checked content and, instead of overlaying full screen interstitial warnings you have to click through before you can even see the post, we will use a much less obtrusive label indicating that there is additional information for those who want to see it, Kaplan said.

Meta also announced other changes in its policies that will implemented in the coming months.

One is expanding its transparency reporting so people can track its progress. It is also getting a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity, and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate. These policy changes may take a few weeks to be fully implemented.

Meta will also change how it enforces policies to reduce the kind of mistakes that account for the vast majority of the censorship on its platforms. The company said its existing automated systems to scan for all policy violations have resulted in too many mistakes and too much content being censored that shouldn’t have been.

Meta said it is continually testing how it delivers personalized experiences and has recently conducted testing around civic content.

As a result, we're going to start treating civic content from people and Pages you follow on Facebook more like any other content in your feed, and we will start ranking and showing you that content based on explicit signals (for example, liking a piece of content) and implicit signals (like viewing posts) that help us predict what’s meaningful to people, Kaplan said.

We are also going to recommend more political content based on these personalized signals and are expanding the options people have to control how much of this content they see, Kaplan added.

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