Facebook owner to copy community notes scheme pioneered by Elon Musk’s X
Facebook owner Meta is ending its third party fact-checking programme and will instead rely on its users to flag misinformation, as the social media giant prepares for Donald Trump’s return as president. The $1.59tn company said on Tuesday said it would “allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations” and “take a more personalised approach to political content”.
Starting in the US, Meta will move to a so-called “community notes” model, similar to the one employed by Elon Musk’s X, which allows users to add context to controversial or misleading posts. Meta itself will not write community notes. Zuckerberg added that Meta would also change its systems to “dramatically reduce” the amount of content that its automated filters remove from its platforms. That includes lifting restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender.
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