The advisory council of meta -security has Wrote the company a letter About his problems with his Recent changes in politicsIncluding his decision to suspend his program to verify the facts. In it, the Council stated that the political shift of META “risks priority political ideologies against global security imperatives.” It emphasizes how Meta’s position as one of the most influential companies in the world gives her the opportunity to influence not only behavior on the Internet, but also social norms. The company risks “to normalize harmful behavior and undermine years of social progress … Having gained protection for protected communities,” the letter said.
Facebook Helping the center Describes the advisory council on the security of meta security as a group of “independent organizations and experts on online security” from different countries. The company formed it in 2009 and consulted with its members on issues that rotate around public security.
META General Director Mark Zuckerberg announced a huge shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech in the beginning of this year. In addition to the disclosure that Meta is completing its third-party facts verification program and introduces notes from the X-something style community that X Lina Yakkarino applauded – he too said The fact that the company kills a “bunch of restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender, which are simply not related to the main discourse.” Soon after his announcement, Meta changed its The policy of hated behavior “To resolve accusations of mental illness or anomalies based on the floor or sexual orientation.” He also deleted a policy that forbade users to refer to women as home objects or property, as well as a call of transgender people or non -non -nbinary as “this”.
The Council states that it covers the “constant efforts of META to combat the most egregious and illegal harm” on their platforms, but also emphasized that the decision of “constant hatred of individuals or communities” should remain the main priority for META, since it has wave effects who go in addition to his applications and websites. And since marginalized groups, such as women, LGBTKA+ and immigrant communities, are disproportionately aimed at online, changes in META policy may deprive that they felt safe and are included in the company's platforms.
Returning to the META decision to put an end to the facts verification program, the Council explained that although tools, such as Community Notes, can solve the problem of disinformation, independent researchers caused concern about their effectiveness. One report Last year, it was shown that messages with false elections for X, for example, did not show the proposed corrections of the community. They even gained billions of views. “The verification of the facts serves as a vital protection, especially in the regions of the world, where misinformation fits offline breasts and as the adoption of AI grows,” the Council wrote. “Meta must guarantee that new approaches reduce risks around the world.”