Meta announced Tuesday that it has abandoned third-party fact-checking programs on Facebook, Instagram and Threads and is replacing its army of paid moderators with a Community Notes model that mimics the much-maligned X volunteer program, which allows users to publicly flag trusted content. be false or misleading. In a blog post announcing the news, Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan said the decision was made to allow more topics to be discussed openly on the company’s platform. The first change will affect corporate moderation in the US. details on what topics this new rule will apply to. In a video accompanying the blog post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new policy would see more political content return to people’s feeds and posts. on other issues that have fueled the culture wars in the US in recent years. “Said Zuckerberg. Meta has withdrawn its fact-checking and content moderation policies that have been implemented after the revelations in 2016 about influence operations carried out on its platform, which were designed to sway elections and in some cases promote violence and even genocide. Before the high-profile elections of the year In the past, Meta has been criticized for taking a hands-off approach to content moderation related to the voice. Echoing comments Mark Zuckerberg made last year, Kaplan said the moderation policy Meta content has been implemented not to protect users but “in part to respond to social and political pressure to moderate content.” which is fact-checked that people will recognize as legitimate political speech and debate,” Kaplan wrote. But WIRED reported last year that harmful content like medical misinformation has flourished on the platform while groups like anti-government militias have used Facebook to recruit members new. Zuckerberg meanwhile blamed “legacy media” for forcing Facebook to implement content moderation policies during the 2016 election. “After Trump was first elected in 2016, legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation is a threat to democracy,” Zuckerberg said. “We tried, in good faith, to solve the problem without being the arbiter of the truth, but the fact checker has been very politically biased and has destroyed more trust than it has created,” in what he tried to frame as an offer to remove bias, Zuckerberg said confidence in the house and Meta’s safety team will move from California to Texas, which is now also the headquarters of X. us,” he said Zuckerberg.
