THE Meta announced the closure of its fact-checking program in the United States and its replacement by a “Community Notes” system similar to what is used by platform X, formerly Twitter, owned by Elon Musk.
The company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp announced the changes this Tuesday (7). Meta’s president, Mark Zuckerberg, published a video on his profile explaining the decision and added: “It’s time to return to our roots in relation to freedom of expression”.
The Community Notes template will allow users of the community’s social networks to Goal – Facebook, Instagram and Threads – draw attention to potentially misleading posts that need more context, rather than placing the responsibility on independent fact-checking organizations and experts.
“Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives. This was evident in the choices some made about what and how to fact-check… A program intended to inform has often become a tool of censorship,” said the Goal.
The company added that its efforts over the years to manage content on its platforms have expanded “to the point where we are making too many mistakes, frustrating our users and often hindering the freedom of expression we set out to enable.”
The company said it would begin gradually rolling out Community Notes in the United States in the coming months and would refine the model throughout the year. No specific date was announced for the change to reach other countries.
THE Goal It will also stop demoting verified content and use a label notifying users that there is additional information related to the post, rather than the current method of displaying full-screen prompts that users have to click on before they can even preview the post.
This content was originally published in Meta ends fact checking in the USA and adopts a model similar to X in its networks on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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