Meta introduces some new features to its crowdsourcing fact-checking program, community notes, Launched in the United States earlier this year. Now, a notification will be received when a user interacts with a Facebook, a post on Instagram, or a thread that receives community tickets. Also, anyone can now request notes or rate notes if they help.
The company said the features are currently considered “test.” Meta Ciso Guy Rosen shared on X that more than 70,000 contributors have written 15,000 notes since the system was released, with only 6% of them published. For markets like the United States Hundreds of mega Among users across platforms, the bucket is still small.
Meta’s community notes system mimics a Twitter debut in 2021 (now known as X). The latter is Criticized by researchers Due to the failure to mark error messages on timely and at scale, some people wonder if the alternative to Meta would be better. Like X’s plan, community notes are added to the post when consensus is reached by different users who usually share the opposite viewpoint, even if this spans current ideology or otherwise.
While the system can help highlight false information and misleading posts, like posts lacking further context, critics point out that it is sometimes difficult to reach the necessary consensus. The Center for Nonprofit Democratic Technology (CDT) that advocates digital rights, It has been pointed out that error messages will spread Before correcting. It cites a study that found that more than 70% of the accurate descriptions related to misinformation of the U.S. elections have never been shown to users.
The group also questioned whether this type of system works well in high-visual environments such as Instagram and Reels, such as Instagram and Reels, or that it can penetrate private silos on Facebook like a group. It suggests that META should add measurements to indicate how many people have seen correction information and to make the annotated data publicly available for greater transparency. It has pushed the company to rethink its decisions Ended to conduct fact checks on the platform.
