EXCLUSIVE: Meta next week launches his new community notes program to replace his biased, Fact of Facts Checking Third Party.
Company’s global business officer, Joel Kaplan, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that the contents of the community notes applied will not be limited in the distribution of users or the penalties were made.
Target, in January, completed your fact of verification of facts and raised limits to a platform speech to “renew free expression” on Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms. The target said his practice of moderation of content “went too far”.
“We had a third -party program, checking the facts, which was well -intentioned at the beginning, but it turned out to be truly prone to partisan political bias and destroyed a lot of trust and credibility in the system,” Kaplan said. “We decided to replace this system, starting in the United States, an access to the community, which we announced in January.”
Next week, Meta opens a new community notes program for users to write and evaluate notes on Facebook, Instagram and themes.
“We have developed a waiting list that actually has several hundred thousand people, a wide cross -section of Americans who use Facebook and Instagram who want to be able to add context to content they see when they think is a misconception,” Kaplan said. “And the great thing in the notes in the community is that, above all, instead of a handful of so -called experts such as the factors of the fact of third parties, it is our community, which is widely based, ideologically diverse people from the whole political spectrum.”
The target launches its new community notes program.
The target will start gradually and randomly recognizing people from the waiting list and will take time to test the writing and evaluation system before being published by any note.
The target will not decide what is rated or what is written, but contributors to the Community of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, the company told Fox News Digital.
The Meta Community note program will allow users to publish additional context with posts. (Target)
Kaplan told Fox News Digital that the target borrows an algorithm used by X, which the company has open from its system.
“The algorithm applies only a note in the community when people who usually agree agree that something is wrong,” Kaplan said. “And this is the way you ensure that the bias that has entered into a third -party fact verification system is not part of this system.”
Kaplan said all content is subject to notes in the community, except ads. However, associates can submit notes on almost any other form of content, including meta posts, the target of executives, politicians and other public figures.
“The second thing he won’t do what the third check program did to do is the fact that he does not apply any punishment,” Kaplan explained.
“The third party fact checks, in addition to bias, had fines attached to it, where, if something rated falsely, we would dramatically reduce its distribution,” Kaplan continued. “And that turned the program that was supposed to be an additional information to the one that was basically a censor tool.”
The MET’s Fact of Facts Program of the Third Party was established after the 2016 election and was used for “content management” and misinformation on their platforms, mainly because of “political pressure”, the managers said, but admitted that the system “went too far”.
“The community notes program is just providing additional information and context so that people can make their own decisions, but does not apply distribution penalties or limit the flow of information through an algorithm,” Kaplan said.
According to a third -party fact verification program, the posts of proven facts often reduced their distribution on platforms. The target said that this would not be the case with the posts applied to the community, which will not affect who can see the content or how wide it can be divided.
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Kaplan said Meta believes that users “should see both posts and then the additional information that will provide them with the context of the post”.
“We want to make sure the whole range of information has been provided,” he said.
Community notes will be limited to 500 characters and will be written by associates in the Meta Community Notes program.
“Individual members of the community will write and send notes, and then other members of the community will say,” Yes, it looks right for me, “he said.” “And after the algorithm finds that he has received a critical mass of support from people who do not usually agree, it is a bias check.”
“All the changes we made in January were in the service of returning to our roots of free expression, and the program of checking the third party became an obstacle to that,” Kaplan said. “Community based system that allows our users to just provide additional information that people are considered useful, I think it is a great improvement of voice and expression on the platform.”
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As for who can contribute to the community notes, Meta told Fox News Digital that associates must be over 18 years of age and have an account more than six months old and in good condition. The user must also have either a proven telephone number or be entered in a dual -factor authentication.
The feature of the community note will be available in six languages usually used in the United States to begin with, including English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Portuguese. The target will spread to other languages down the line.
