{"id":19521,"date":"2025-01-07T23:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19521"},"modified":"2025-01-08T00:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:24:31","slug":"facebook-shifts-content-moderation-to-its-users-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19521","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">Meta is joining X and YouTube in shifting moderation to users. Are you ready?<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker \u2014 the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about misleading content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/01\/07\/business\/meta-fact-checking\" title>announced Tuesday<\/a> that he was ending much of the company\u2019s moderation efforts, like third-party fact-checking and content restrictions. Instead, he said, the company will turn over fact-checking duties to everyday users under a model called Community Notes, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/07\/business\/meta-community-notes-x.html\" title>which was popularized by X<\/a> and lets users leave a fact-check or correction on a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The announcement signals the end of an era in content moderation and an embrace of looser guidelines that even Mr. Zuckerberg acknowledged would increase the amount of false and misleading content<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>on the world\u2019s largest social network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"InteractiveBlock-1\">\n<section data-testid=\"inline-interactive\" id=\"disinfo-commmunity-note-gkjf7\" data-id=\"100000009913588\" data-source-id=\"100000009913588\" class=\"interactive-content interactive-size-scoop css-174j8de\">\n<header id=\"interactive-header\" class=\"css-obecq5 interactive-header\">\n<h2 id=\"interactive-headline\" class=\"css-4hk76s interactive-headline\">What is a Community Note?<\/h2>\n<p data-testid=\"leadin\" id=\"interactive-leadin\" class=\"css-1qa9noj interactive-leadin\">On X, the notes are appended beneath posts to add missing details or corrections. This one, highlighted in red, appeared on a post by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"css-17ih8de interactive-body\" data-sourceid=\"100000009913588\" id=\"embed-id-100000009913588\">\n<p><!-- Generated by ai2html v0.121.1 - 2025-01-07 18:47 --><br \/>\n<!-- ai file: communitynote.ai --><\/p>\n<p>\t#g-communitynote-box {<br \/>\n\t\tmax-width:600pxpx;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-box ,<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-box .g-artboard {<br \/>\n\t\tmargin:0 auto;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-box p {<br \/>\n\t\tmargin:0;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-box .g-aiAbs {<br \/>\n\t\tposition:absolute;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-box .g-aiImg {<br \/>\n\t\tposition:absolute;<br \/>\n\t\ttop:0;<br \/>\n\t\tdisplay:block;<br \/>\n\t\twidth:100% !important;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-box .g-aiSymbol {<br \/>\n\t\tposition: absolute;<br \/>\n\t\tbox-sizing: border-box;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-box .g-aiPointText p { white-space: nowrap; }<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-Artboard_1 {<br \/>\n\t\tposition:relative;<br \/>\n\t\toverflow:hidden;<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n\t#g-communitynote-Artboard_2 {<br \/>\n\t\tposition:relative;<br \/>\n\t\toverflow:hidden;<br \/>\n\t}<\/p>\n<div id=\"g-communitynote-box\" class=\"ai2html ai2html-responsive\" role=\"img\">\n<p>\t<!-- Artboard: Artboard_1 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"g-communitynote-Artboard_1\" class=\"g-artboard\" style=\"min-width: 600px\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.333\" data-min-width=\"600\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 75% 0\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- Artboard: Artboard_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"g-communitynote-Artboard_2\" class=\"g-artboard\" style=\"max-width: 599px;max-height: 687px\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.872\" data-min-width=\"0\" data-max-width=\"599\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0 0 114.6259% 0\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"g-communitynote-Artboard_2-img\" class=\"g-communitynote-Artboard_2-img g-aiImg\" alt src=\"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/communitynote-Artboard_2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End ai2html - 2025-01-07 18:47 -->\n<\/div>\n<footer id=\"interactive-footer\" class=\"css-nt2azn interactive-footer\">\n<p data-testid=\"credit\" id=\"interactive-credit\" class=\"css-cudxsp interactive-credit\">Note: Screenshot excludes content embedded within Mr. Musk\u2019s post. By The New York Times<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a spectacular failure,\u201d said Alex Mahadevan, the director of a media literacy program at the Poynter Institute called MediaWise, who has studied Community Notes on X. \u201cThe platform now has no responsibility for really anything that\u2019s said. They can offload responsibility onto the users themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-3\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such a turn would have been unimaginable after the presidential elections in 2016 or even 2020, when social media companies saw themselves as reluctant warriors on the front lines of a misinformation war. 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Are you ready?Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker \u2014 the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about misleading content.It\u2019s you.Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, announced Tuesday that he was ending much of the company\u2019s moderation efforts, like third-party fact-checking and content restrictions. Instead, he said, the company will turn over fact-checking duties to everyday users under a model called Community Notes, which was popularized by X and lets users leave a fact-check or correction on a social media post.The announcement signals the end of an era in content moderation and an embrace of looser guidelines that even Mr. Zuckerberg acknowledged would increase the amount of false and misleading content on the world\u2019s largest social network.What is a Community Note?On X, the notes are appended beneath posts to add missing details or corrections. 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