Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the US coming Monday, According to Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan.
The meta announced the significant change of this policy in January when it also released its content moderation policies.
The timing of this change in conjunction with President Trump's inauguration, attended by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg Ddonated $ 1 Million In Trump's inauguration fund. Around the same time, Zuckerberg added Dana White, a long trump allies and UFC CEO, on Meta's board.
“The recent election also felt like a point of tipping in the culture towards the moment re -prioritizing speech,” Zuckerberg said to a video Announcing changes in moderation.
But some say that Zuckerberg is very pleased to prioritize has come at the expense of marginalized people.
“We allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality if based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality,” Meta's Hate policy of conduct Reading.
Meta modeling is the new check-fact effort after community notes at Elon Musk's X, which puts onus moderation in part with other users than professional fees.
“In the area of reality checks, the first community notes will begin to appear gradually throughout Facebook, Threads & Instagram, with no penalties attached,” Kaplan Write to X.
While this community-based approach to moderation of content may provide an important context to misleading or controversial posts, it works better in conjunction with other content moderation tools, removed by the meta.
The greatest money of the meta is the attention of its users, and less content moderation means that there are many posts for people to see – including, the meta news feed tends to appear content that generates a strong reaction.
That, as Meta started rotating the check-fact programs, Incorrect content began to spread. A Facebook page manager, spreading viral, fake claim that ice will pay people $ 750 to tap them about unscrupulous immigrants, said in propublica That the end of the check-fact program is “great information.”
“We remove a number of restrictions on topics such as immigration, gender identity and gender topics of frequent discourse and debate,” Kaplan write In January. “It's not right that things can be said on TV or on the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms.”
