From Tuesday in the United States, Meta tests so -called ‘community notes’ on its social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads. It is a function with which users can comment on messages that they think are misleading.
In the US, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg wants to get rid of independent experts who perform facts checks and instead enter ‘community notes’, he announced in January.
The notes will not appear immediately on Tuesday. Meta first wants to test how the writing and assessment of the Community Notes goes before they are published, the company writes on its blog. The tech company says that around 200,000 users of Instagram, Facebook and Threads have registered for the new function, which looks like a similar system of X.
Zuckerberg’s decision to stop independent facts checks gave him a lot of criticism. According to the Facebook founder, they often led to censorship through the bias of fact checkers, an opinion that mostly expressed right-wing conservative politicians in the US earlier. A dome of fact check organizations responded strongly to that reproach. Members emphasized the strict requirements of impartiality that employees had to meet and stated that Meta ultimately decides which messages should go offline.
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