Meta opened on Thursday the possibility of publishing context elements linked to potentially deceptive publications, a system directly inspired by X (ex-twitter) and established after the end of the verification of facts in the United States. By the way, the group suggested that it was planning to eliminate the verification programs of facts worldwide.
However, this total abolition could face the legislation of several countries and regions, for which context notes (community notes), the new system adopted by goal, does not allow effectively fighting against misinformation.
Context notes are produced by referenced users who say that a message requires details or contextualization, more frequently joining sources. If other taxpayers, having several points of view, judge these useful notes, will be published on the platform in question.
There is no human intervention for the filtering of notes
First, these context notes for Instagram, Facebook and threads will not be visible and will only be destined to be evaluated by goal Teams, according to a press release.
At the end of this calibration period, goal will gradually make the comments sent by certain users registered in a waiting list, which includes about 200,000 names.
They are assumed that context notes, for the Facebook parent company, replace the verification of facts, which Meta decided, in January, to leave in the United States. Chief goal, Mark Zuckerberg, explained, in January, after the choice of Donald Trump, which, according to him, the auditors were “too politically oriented.”
The group indicated Thursday that once in its place, the mechanism would not imply human intervention to filter context notes, whose publication will depend on the opinions of taxpayers and an algorithm. Goal will first use the X algorithm that the group controlled by Elon Musk offers free access (open source).
Unlike the verification of facts, context notes will have no effect on the visibility of a message, even if they highlight potentially misleading content.
Meta plans “to establish, ultimately,” context context “for all our users around the world,” said the Californian company, “but that will not be done immediately.” Waiting for the deployment of this new nomenclature in other countries, “the verification of facts (and) will remain in force.”
AFP participates in more than 26 languages in a program to verify the facts developed by Facebook, which pays more than 80 media worldwide.
Source: BFM TV
