US EditionMeta begins testing X-style community notes for Facebook, Instagram
- Meta Platforms Inc. Will test 'Community Notes' starting March 18, 2025, changing from third-party fact-checking to a crowd-sourced system for content moderation across its platforms.
- Meta Platforms Inc. Will discontinue its third-party fact-checking program and test a new 'Community Notes' system starting March 18, 2025, in the United States.
- Users will be able to write and rate notes on content across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, with approximately 200,000 users already signed up.
- Unlike the previous system, posts with Community Notes will not face penalties or reduced reach on Meta's platforms.
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Meta to start testing crowd-sourced fact-checking, based on X example
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc will begin testing its crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, on March 18. It will initially based on a ratings system used by Elon Musk's X. Meta ended its fact-checking program in January. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that fact-checkers had…
Meta to launch Community Notes for fact-checking, inspired by Musk's X
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced that it will begin testing its new Community Notes fact-checking program on March 18, 2025. This initiative takes inspiration from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and aims to crowdsource fact-checking rather than rely on traditional methods. The move comes after Meta shut down its official fact-checking program in January, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming that fac…
"Meta doesn't want to be an arbiter of the truth": after her back on the fact-checking, the group launches collective moderation inspired by X
Meta opened on Thursday the possibility to post context elements related to potentially misleading publications, system directly inspired by X (ex-Twitter) and set up after the end of the fact-checking in the United States. ...
Target starts testing 'Community notes' to replace fact-checking
Meta announced on Thursday that it will start testing on its platforms the "community notes", an alternative system to moderate content on social networks with which it plans to replace the professional verifier services it used so far. Meta's executive director, Mark Zuckerberg, announced in January this shift in its content moderation policies, amid a rapprochement with Donald Trump's new government. "Community notes" will allow users of Faceb…
Meta to Begin Testing Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Meta is set to launch a new crowd-sourced fact-checking initiative called Community Notes across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, the company announced on March 13. This initiative will replace the company’s third-party fact-checking program in the United States, which it announced in January would be discontinued. Beginning March 18, the Community Notes system will allow users to write and rate contextual notes on content, a model inspired by …
Zuckerberg, this time, introduces MuskX technology to monitor fake news
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Tae-jong = Facebook's parent company Meta Platform (hereinafter referred to as Meta) has added a new function to monitor false information, including Elon Musk's X...
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