Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is ending its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a user-driven system called Community Notes. The company cites biases among expert fact-checkers and the excessive volume of content flagged for review as reasons for the shift. Meta will also relax content restrictions on certain topics like immigration and gender, focusing instead on illegal activities and severe violations.
FILE — The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, USA, Oct. 14, 2022. Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with Community Notes written by users similar to the model used by
“We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context,” Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post. The social media company also said it plans to allow “more speech” by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion such as immigration and gender in order to focus on illegal and “high severity violations” like terrorism, child sexual exploitation and drugs.
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