Meta to start testing crowd-sourced fact-checking next week
- Meta will begin testing its crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, on March 18, after ending its third-party program earlier this year.
- Around 200,000 users in the U.S. Have signed up for Community Notes, according to Meta's announcement.
- Contributors will decide what gets rated or written, asserting that Community Notes will be less biased than the previous program.
- Media experts express concerns that the new system may legitimize claims of political bias in fact-checking, as noted by Dan Evon from RumorGuard.
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Meta to start testing crowd-sourced fact-checking next week
It initially will be based on a ratings system used by Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
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Read Full ArticleMeta to test Community Notes, based on X tech, in US
Meta will begin testing ‘Community Notes’ in the US from March 18, using a technology developed by Elon Musk-owned X, two months after the Facebook parent decided to scrap its fact-checking programme amid pressure from conservatives. As part of the move, Meta will allow contributors to write and rate notes on content across Facebook, Instagram and Threads, […]
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