Meta, which owns the social networks Facebook and Instagram, announced changes in its approaches to regulating them.
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg announced this on his Facebook page.
What began as a movement for greater inclusion has increasingly been used to suppress voices and people with different ideas, he said.
Zuckerberg promises that the new changes:
- minimize undue interference with freedom of speech;
- will provide new tools for content moderation and personalization.
Zuckerberg said that the current system makes too many mistakes, and even 1% of content removed by mistake means millions of people. Yes, according to him, previously people wanted not to see political content, but now the demand for such content has returned.
In particular, the following key changes are being introduced:
- abandonment of the third-party fact-checking program in favor of Community Notes – a similar model works at the social network X (formerly Twitter). Zuckerberg noted that the fact checkers turned out to be too politically biased;
- the new system will allow users to independently add context to publications. This should ensure transparency in the process by involving participants from different perspectives;
- Restrictions on political and social content are being reduced, particularly on immigration and gender identity. This should significantly reduce the amount of content that automatic filters remove from social networks. Meta will now focus resources primarily on combating illegal activities such as terrorism, fraud or child exploitation;
- filters previously removed political content with any violations. This now only applies to illegal content or high-level violations. In other cases, the company will consider the relevant complaints first.
Initially, the updated system will work in the United States with gradual expansion to other countries.
It’s time to return to our roots around freedom of expression,” Zuckerberg said.
Source: Racurs
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