At the beginning of this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will His long -term program for checking the facts, claiming that it allowed too much “censorship” in the company's applications. Now Meta has set the date of the verification of facts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads (at least for its US users).
“By Monday evening, our USA verification program will be officially over”, Meta's Political Head Joel Kaplan announced in On X. “This means the absence of new checks of facts and no facts controllers.”
Instead, Meta slowly increased the community notes. Meters began to allow potential participants to register This field began A system that will initially work on the same algorithm as the notes of the community on X, at the beginning of this month. But checking the facts in crowdsourcing has not yet appeared publicly at the posts. It seems that this is also going to change with the official end of the existing partners to verify the facts of META. “The first notes of the community will begin to gradually appear throughout Facebook, Threads & Instagram, without fines,” Kaplan said.
Although Meta said that she wanted to ultimately completely put an end to the verification of the facts, the company spoke relatively little about its plans for public notes outside the United States. This can be because officials in other countries, for example And already expressed concern about how changes can affect the stream of misinformation around the world.
The instruction of META at the end of the verification of facts in the United States occurred at the beginning of this year along with several other changes in politics that marked a noticeable right shift for the social network, as soon as President Donals Trump took office. The company also completed the corporate Relieved back Protection from her services and added a close ally of Trump to Field