Meta replaces third-party fact checking with community notes system

[Daniel Puchert]

Facebook and Instagram dropping independent fact checkers for community system

Meta Platforms will end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms starting in the US, letting users comment on posts’ accuracy with a community notes system it said will promote free expression.

Content moderation systems across the company’s platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram and Threads, have “gone too far,” and are blocking users’ free expression too often, Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, said in a blog post on Tuesday.

 

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Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines

Users are now allowed to, for example, refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” according to a section of the policy prohibiting such speech that was crossed out.

Other places report that you're now allowed to say LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill...

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