Mark Zuckerberg, delegate of the multinational Meta, has announced that Facebook and Instagram They will stop verifying data through independent experts and organizations, which they have been using until now, and will replace them with a system of user notes similar to the ‘community notes’ that Elon Musk uses on the social network ‘X’ .
In the statement, Mark Zuckerberg assures that the changes, for now, will only have effect in the United States.
The new model, known in English as ‘Community Notes’ will allow Facebook or Instagram users to flag potentially misleading posts and that they need more context, a task that until now was done by experts and independent fact-checking organizations.
Guarantee “freedom of expression”
“We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with X-like community notes, starting with the United States,” says Zuckerberg, who attributes the changes to a “changing political and social landscape and a desire to embrace freedom of expression.”
He also claims that the systems created by Meta to moderate their platforms were “making too many mistakes,” and assures that the company Yes, it will continue to moderate drug-related content.terrorism and child exploitation.
