Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."
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Honestly not a bad idea. The community notes are easier to trust and typically more accurate anyway.
Easier to trust and more accurate currently, but I don't doubt that the algorithm to generate the notes will be internal and closed source, allowing them to utilize that trust to manipulate people.
Community notes are written and voted on by the community
Because that's never gone wrong before
Just look at front page on reddit. Basically half of the headlines are misleading.
Yes, and reddit has massive centralized ban squads that suppress dissent.
A lot of the time there's a comment correcting the title or article at the top though. Pros and cons with that system.
There is, but doesn't explain why there's more upvotes on the post than the comment. Most people would downvote the post after reading that comment, but it's usually higher anyway. (and sometimes it's not, I know)
Because people don't go to the comments, they read the title on the front/subreddit page, sometimes vote and then move on.
I trust that more than some random fact checkers tbh.
In a capitalist society, you get much better quality when you pay someone their living to do that.
Nothing stopping meta from adjusting or hiding the vote count later. Hundreds of ways to fiddle with that thing, some really subtle and would not generate drama.
I’m pretty sure the current reason to remove the fact checking is so the company is not put on a collision course with government, a government that will lie so much daily it will break all records.
So, just because they can alter the community notes does not mean they will
and, what happens when say the community overwhelms, say a conservative facebook group, could add a community note saying "the geese are dissapearing near hatian communities, and there are x missing cats and dogs". While voting against notes actually reporting the Mayor, Police etc... having denied the claims and also noting that the missing animals are normal for any region of said size.
Except in instances when the Notes were screenshot and passed around as a joke, I don't know how many people took them seriously on X, The Everything App.
Better than partners certified by the International Fact-Checking Network?
And who certified the international fact checking network!?
International Board of Fact-Checking
And who fact checks the International Board of Fact-Checking?!
I don't know what the "International Fact-Checking Network" is and I doubt most Facebook users do. The type of person using Facebook is going to likely trust notes written by their peers more than things that come from "on high" (meaning Facebook themselves)
is going to likely trust notes written by their peers
How is that a good thing if a lot of these notes take content out of context or are just plain wrong, echoed by those who trust misinformation?
I suppose I'm just seeing how even Twitter has had success with community notes, and figured it would be the same on Facebook. But it's easy to forget just how... out there Facebook is these days.
Community Notes are good, but they’re never a complete replacement for paid work. And my second paragraph is based on some notable incidents on X; it’s not just “oh it’s only bad because it’s on Facebook”.
Yeah, and with the added context of other things Meta has done over the past few days, we can plainly see what this is about.
Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.
Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.
Does that sound like a good way to get facts?
