Facebook and Instagram owner Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes
2 days, 11 hours ago

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes

New Indian Express  

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X. Instead, it will pivot to a Community Notes model that uses crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users. “We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context,” Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post. The social media company also said it plans to allow “more speech” by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion in order to focus on illegal and “high severity violations" like terrorism, child sexual exploitation and drugs.

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No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?
5 hours ago

No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?

Associated Press  

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week was widely seen in news verification circles as a genuflection to president-elect Donald Trump, whose first term in office popularized the phrase “alternative facts.” Meta is replacing its …

The X-ification of Meta
55 years ago

The X-ification of Meta

Wired  

It’s a social networking company with close ties to the incoming Trump administration. It deploys a “community notes” system to fight misinformation and lets hateful comments fly under the banner of “free speech.” It’s got a hefty side-gig in AI. Meta this week said it would torpedo its fact-checking partners in favor of X’s “community notes” model and used the …

Meta’s Fact-checking: disinformation experts slam Zuckerberg’s decision
1 day, 9 hours ago

Meta’s Fact-checking: disinformation experts slam Zuckerberg’s decision

The Hindu  

Tech giant Meta's shock announcement that it is ending its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for false narratives. Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was going to "get rid" of its third-party fact-checkers in the United States, in a sweeping policy shift that analysts saw as …

Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking program, possibly as he tries to appease Donald Trump: Story in 5 points
1 day, 11 hours ago

Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking program, possibly as he tries to appease Donald Trump: Story in 5 points

India Today  

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a big decision to end the company’s long-standing fact-checking program, a move that has sparked debates across the tech and political verticals. The impact of this decision is wide-ranging, from how misinformation will be managed on platforms like Facebook and Instagram to the future of third-party fact-checking organisations that rely on Meta’s support. Meta …

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them
55 years ago

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Wired  

Meta’s fact-checking partners claim they were “blindsided” by the company’s decision to abandon third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in favor of a Community Notes model, and some say they are now scrambling to figure out if they can survive the hole this leaves in their funding. “We heard the news just like everyone else,” says Alan Duke, cofounder …

Meta to discontinue fact-checking, rely on user-based filtration: Zuckerberg
Top News
1 day, 20 hours ago

Meta to discontinue fact-checking, rely on user-based filtration: Zuckerberg

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced a decision to do away with the company's long-standing fact checking teams—choosing instead to establish a ‘community notes’ mechanism akin to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter. Zuckerberg’s other moves include backing the incoming Trump administration to influence global governments that the executive said has made it difficult for “American …

Meta to scrap fact-checking, introduces ‘Community Notes’ for users to flag misleading posts
1 day, 21 hours ago

Meta to scrap fact-checking, introduces ‘Community Notes’ for users to flag misleading posts

Live Mint  

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the US and replacing it with a new "Community Notes" system, the company announced on Tuesday. The new system will empower users on Meta's platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—to flag posts that may be misleading or lack proper context, shifting the responsibility for content moderation away from independent fact-checking organizations and experts. The company …

Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes
2 days, 11 hours ago

Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes

LA Times  

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, shown at a conference last year, acknowledged that the changes are in part sparked by Donald Trump’s presidential election. Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk’s social media platform X. …

Meta is following X's playbook on fact-checking. What it means for you
2 days, 11 hours ago

Meta is following X's playbook on fact-checking. What it means for you

LA Times  

Social media giant Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, above, is ending its U.S. fact-checking program, a major shift that conforms with the priorities of President-elect Donald Trump. Facebook parent company Meta Platforms said Tuesday that it’s ending a third-party fact-checking program in the United States, a controversial move that will change how the social media giant combats misinformation. “We …

Social media giant Meta scraps fact-checking for ‘community notes’
Top News
2 days, 11 hours ago

Social media giant Meta scraps fact-checking for ‘community notes’

Al Jazeera  

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, says allowing fact-checkers to assess content ‘became a tool to censor’. The social media giant Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, has announced the end of its third-party fact-checking programme in the United States, saying that it will encourage “more speech” on its platform. Instead of third-party fact-checkers, Meta said it will rely on …

Meta dilutes content moderation policy, paves the way for X-like Community Notes model
2 days, 11 hours ago

Meta dilutes content moderation policy, paves the way for X-like Community Notes model

India TV News  

Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has announced significant changes to how it manages what people post on its platforms. The company enforced many guardrails following criticism that the company has contributed to the spread of false information, particularly on political topics and health issues like COVID-19. In a blog post titled “More speech, fewer mistakes,” Meta’s new …

Report says crowd-sourced fact checks on X fail to address flood of US election misinformation
2 months, 1 week ago

Report says crowd-sourced fact checks on X fail to address flood of US election misinformation

The Independent  

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Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Facebook and Instagram parent Meta …

Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle, a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations and journalists to monitor social media posts, notably to track how misinformation spreads on the company’s platforms. In May, dozens of groups, including the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, Human …

Meta removes over 18 million pieces of harmful content from Facebook and Instagram in February
9 months ago

Meta removes over 18 million pieces of harmful content from Facebook and Instagram in February

India TV News  

Meta said that it took down more than 13.8 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 4.8 million pieces of objectionable content from Instagram across 12 policies in India in February 2024. Meta further added, "Of the other 9,212 reports where specialised review was needed, we analysed content as per our policies and took action …

Do we need to fact-check the fact-checker?
9 months, 1 week ago

Do we need to fact-check the fact-checker?

Live Mint  

The Centre has notified a fact-checking unit to flag ‘misinformation’ about the government, with powers to issue directives. The fact-checking unit was notified under the Centre’s Press Information Bureau, giving the government body power to flag any information about the government and its affiliates that it believes to be fake or misleading. Lawyers say using legal clauses further threatens social …

Meta to Replace Widely Used Data Tool—and Largely Cut Off Reporter Access
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta to Replace Widely Used Data Tool—and Largely Cut Off Reporter Access

Live Mint  

Meta Platforms plans to shut down a data tool long used by academic researchers, journalists and others to monitor the spread of content on its Facebook and Instagram services, the company said on Thursday. Rebekah Tromble, director of the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at George Washington University, said that the Meta Content Library currently limits how much data …

Meta to Label AI-generated Content on Facebook, Instagram: Will Self-regulation Suffice in Deepfake Age?
11 months ago

Meta to Label AI-generated Content on Facebook, Instagram: Will Self-regulation Suffice in Deepfake Age?

News 18  

In a groundbreaking move, Meta – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads – announced a new policy aimed at addressing the growing concern around AI-generated content. In a blog post, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said: “While companies are starting to include signals in their image generators, they haven’t started including them in AI tools that …

Meta's Instagram to bring branded content tools to Threads
1 year, 5 months ago

Meta's Instagram to bring branded content tools to Threads

The Hindu  

Meta Platforms's Instagram is planning to bring its branded content tools to Threads, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a source familiar with the matter. The news comes on the heels of Threads, widely considered a rival to Elon Musk's Twitter, hitting 100 million users in a record five days. Instagram allows users to port their accounts, credentials and followers to …

Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta's new Threads app
1 year, 5 months ago

Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta's new Threads app

The Independent  

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Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta’s new Threads app
1 year, 5 months ago

Reluctant Twitter users, influencers and others are flocking to Meta’s new Threads app

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta’s freshly minted app Threads to connect with their followers, including many Twitter refugees tired of the drama surrounding Elon Musk’s raucous oversight of that platform. While she said she has her own concerns about Meta — specifically pointing to the Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, among …

Alarming findings: Instagram's disturbing role in promoting pedophiles and illegal content
1 year, 7 months ago

Alarming findings: Instagram's disturbing role in promoting pedophiles and illegal content

Hindustan Times  

Instagram, owned by Meta, has come under fire in a new report revealing its role as a platform for a "vast network" of pedophiles sharing and promoting illegal content. The investigation conducted by The Wall Street Journal, along with Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts, found that Instagram's algorithms actively connect and guide pedophiles to accounts that sell underage …

Twitter Community Notes reaches to 4 more countries
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter Community Notes reaches to 4 more countries

India TV News  

Twitter has expanded its crowd-sourced fact-checking programme, Community Notes, to four more countries, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The company shared the information on Twitter via the Community Notes account, saying: "We are now admitting contributors from the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand -- welcome to Community Notes!" Twitter introduced the social fact-checking program last year …

Today's Cache | Facebook needs a shrink
3 years, 3 months ago

Today's Cache | Facebook needs a shrink

The Hindu  

Facebook is overwhelmed, and has reached out for help Facebook’s problems have compounded in recent times. U.S. lawmakers called CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress on how his firm protects users’ information. The WSJ report comes at a time when Facebook executives are due to face U.S. lawmakers over an issue with Instagram’s plan to build an app for …

Facebook oversight board to review ‘XCheck’ system for VIPs
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook oversight board to review ‘XCheck’ system for VIPs

The Hindu  

Facebook’s semi-independent oversight board says it will review the company’s ‘XCheck’ or cross check system, following an investigation by The Wall Street Journal into the use of this internal system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules. The Journal ’s report found that many VIP users abuse the system, “posting material including harassment and incitement …

Facebook, Twitter outpaced by smaller platforms in fight against harmful content
3 years, 11 months ago

Facebook, Twitter outpaced by smaller platforms in fight against harmful content

The Hindu  

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's YouTube made smaller strides than their social media rivals including TikTok and Reddit at battling harmful content such as hate speech and misinformation during the second half of 2020, a study released on Monday showed. Advertising agency IPG Mediabrands released its "Media Responsibility Index," examining how the top social media platforms performed in 10 areas including …

Facebook knew its algorithm made people turn against each other but stopped research
4 years, 7 months ago

Facebook knew its algorithm made people turn against each other but stopped research

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Facebook executives took the decision to end research that would make the social …

Facebook says it isn’t fact checking politicians on the site
5 years, 3 months ago

Facebook says it isn’t fact checking politicians on the site

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it does not fact check politicians’ statements on its site, even if they might be false. But Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, said the company has exempted politicians’ posts from its fact checking program for more than a year. Twitter also has a newsworthiness exemption in its policy that adds warning labels …

Instagram adds tool for users to flag false information
5 years, 4 months ago

Instagram adds tool for users to flag false information

Live Mint  

SAN FRANCISCO :Instagram is adding an option for users to report posts they think are false, the company announced on Thursday, as the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site tries to stem misinformation and other abuses on its platform. Posting false information is not banned on any of Facebook's suite of social media services, but the company is taking steps to limit the …

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