RedditSays the co -founder TargetThe decision to finish the facts of the third -party facts on their platforms was “pragmatic”, characterizing the move as a reversal of an unenviable program.
In January, just a few days before Donald Trump swore for the second time as an American president, the target announced that they would end checking the facts of third parties on their platforms, a program that Trump and Conservatives often criticized What they say Unfairly targeted right -wing content.
In a series of changes in policies on media giants, executive director Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he will install a community headquarters instead.
“It was a very pragmatic change,” said Reddita Alexis Ohanian co-founder at CNBC at a website in Qatar on Sunday, adding “It is impossible to make facts check on the scale, let alone in real time, as Facebook tried to do.”
“In many ways, I think they just soaked something that was a bad idea from the beginning because it was unsustainable,” Ohanian added.
Meta started its global Facts Verification Program in 2016 In an effort to deal with disinformation and has since joined the organizations to check the facts in more than 100 countries. Return will start in the US, in According to the companyand it will not affect other countries yet.
The Reddit co -founder, who created the “Internet cover” in 2005, also dealt with the future of social media. “I think we will reach the place where we as users choose our algorithms, and because, without a doubt, we are all encouraged to have the best algorithm, not because of nothing wicked, but because we want people to be hired,” he said.
Reddit, who went public in March last year and was estimated at $ 6.4 billion, was one of the first social networks platforms, and began when Myspace still dominated user screens. Reddit struggled with moderation in his own history, eventually banning the revenge of pornography and breaking racism and mizogini in his communities. Today, the platform has over 70 million daily active users and has “community -specific rules” in individual communities or subordinate.
‘A more personalized approach’
In the post about new meta -moderate content, Joel Kaplan, Chief Master Meta Officer of Meta, wrote“Starting from the US, we end our program of checking the facts of the third parties and we move on to the community note model.”
Kaplan added that the target “will have a more personalized approach to political content, so people who want to see it more in their feeds.”
The target did not immediately respond to the CNBC request for comment.
The community’s notes model is also favored by Elon Musk owned by XA, who says that he aims to “create a better informed world by empowering people on Xu to collaboratively add the context of potentially misleading posts.”
Kaplan praised the success of the X with the model, saying: “We saw that this approach works on the X – where they empower their community to decide when posts potentially misconceptions and need more context, and people from a diverse range of perspective decide which context is useful to other users.”
Kaplan, a reputable Republican who replaced Nick Clegg on the target, added that “the target of platforms built as places where people can express themselves freely. These can be messy. On platforms where billions of people can have a voice, all good, bad and ugly exposed. But it is a free expression.”
After Trump’s inauguration, Zuckerberg joined a series of major US companies in the completion of the program intended for diversity, equality and inclusion. Meta boss recently regretted some of the UA decisions letter The congress, in which he said that the Bidana administration had pressed the target to censor a certain content around the Coid-19.
