The meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg appeared during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, September 25, 2024.
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Meta- The functionality of upcoming community notes for monitoring crowdsourcing disinformation will use a technology developed by Elon Musk X for its similar service.
On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog article more details on her new content moderation tool and said he joined the same open-source algorithm that feeds the X-shaped community notes. Meta said that over time, he planned to change the algorithm to better serve his Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
“Like algorithm and X program information is open source – which means free and available for anyone can use – we can rely on what X has done, learn researchers who studied it and improve the system of our own platforms,” Meta said in the post. “As our own version develops, we can explore different or adjusted algorithms to support the way in which community notes are classified and evaluated.”
Meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg turned The community noted in January as a favorite replacement of the company in the United States for the verification of third-party facts, which he closed within the framework of a Broader change in policy which has also softened certain content moderation guidelines. The company will begin to test the community notes next week in the United States last month, Meta said That users can apply to become contributors as long as they meet certain requirements, especially at more than 18 years old and have a verified phone number.
Contributors will not be able to submit community notes on advertisements, but will be able to do so on “almost all other forms of content, including Meta publications, our leaders, politicians and other public figures,” said the blog post. Messages struck by community notes cannot be seduced, but there is no additional penalty for the reported content either.
“The notes will provide an additional context, but they will not have an impact that can see the content or how much it can be shared,” said the blog post.
A Meta spokesperson told CNBC in an email that community notes do not replace content moderation.
Meta does not provide for open source or to publicly publish more technical details on its system of community notes, but is considering the option for the future, said Rachel Lambert, director of product management at Meta, in a press conference.
So far, around 200,000 people have registered to become community notes contributors “and the waiting list remains open to those who wish to participate in the program,” said the company’s blog post.
Neil Johnson, professor of physics at George Washington University and expert in the way in which the disinformation and hate speech spread online, said to CNBC in February That a community notes program can help provide a context for online content, but does not replace “formal verification of facts”.
Johnson characterized a model of community notes as an “imperfect system” which can potentially be exploited by large groups or organizations with their own programs.
Meta said in the blog post that “the publication of a note requires an agreement between different people”, a policy that helps “save against organized campaigns trying to play the system and influence what the notes are published or what they say”.
The company said that the model will be extended across the country “once we are comfortable with initial beta tests in which the program works largely as we think, although we will continue to learn and improve it as you go.”
