redditThe co-founder said YuanThe decision to end a third-party fact-check on its platform is a “pragmatic” decision, describing it as a reversal of an infeasible plan.
In January, just days before Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president for the second time, Meta announced that it would end third-party fact-checks on its platform, a plan that Trump and conservatives often criticized. What do they say Unfair right-wing content.
Amid a series of comprehensive policy changes by the media giant, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he will install a community-based system.
“This is a very pragmatic change,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC at a web summit in Qatar on Sunday, adding: “It’s impossible to do fact-check on a large scale, let alone live in real time, like Facebook is trying to do.”
“In many ways, I think they just came back from the beginning because it was a bad idea because it wasn’t tenable,” Ohanian added.
Yuan launched globally Fact-checking Plan for 2016 To resolve the error message, we have since worked with fact-checking organizations in more than 100 countries. The rollback will begin in the United States, According to the companyand will not affect other countries.
The co-founder of Reddit created the “front page of the internet” in 2005, and also put pressure on the future of social media. “I think we’re going to get to a place where users can choose algorithms because there’s no doubt about these platforms, we’re all motivating us to have the best algorithms, not because of any sinister algorithms, but because we want people to get involved,” he said.
Reddit, published last March, is one of the earliest social networking platforms, starting with MySpace still dominating users’ screens. Reddit has struggled with temperance throughout his history, eventually banning revenge porn and fighting racism and misogyny in his community. Today, the platform has over 70 million active users and has “community-specific rules” between individual communities or sublists.
“A more personalized approach”
In a post about Meta’s new content control policy, Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan, Write“Starting in the United States, we will end our third-party fact-checking program and turn to the community notes model.”
Kaplan added that Meta will “take a more personalized approach to political content so that people who want to see more in the feed can.”
Meta did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The X, owned by Elon Musk, is also favored by the community notes model, which aims to “add context as potentially misleading posts by empowering people on X to create a better world of knowledge.”
Kaplan praised X’s success on the model, saying: “We’ve seen this approach work on X – they have the ability to decide when they might mislead posts, need more context, and people with a wide variety of perspectives decide which type of context will help other users.”
Kaplan, a prominent Republican who replaced Meta’s Nick Clegg, added: “The metaplatform is built and is where people can express themselves freely. It can be messy. On the platform, billions of people can show voices, all the good, the bad and the ugly can show. But it’s free expression.”
After Trump’s inauguration, Zuckerberg joined many majors Plans designed by U.S. companies in the end plan for diversity, equity and inclusion. Meta boss regrets some of the company’s decisions recently letter He said Congress said the Biden administration has put pressure on Meta to review Covid-19-19.
