Meta did take the controversial leap of jumping into the world of Community Notes like X, bidding farewell to fact-checkers forever.
Now, the company is shedding light on how the feature will work and how users will get into control of what’s real and what’s not across different platforms. After the X’s model, we saw Community Notes really get hyped up for flagging wrong information.
Meta is similarly giving a preview of how users can see this latest feature in action across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. It’s going to put users in the front seat to determine what’s real and what’s not through different platforms.
Meta will give users the option to include their own explainers to see how valid data on a post is through its apps. Thankfully, it won’t extend to include ads. Users will get 500 characters explaining concerns about content and also adding reference links for context.
However, critics were quick to notice how Meta fails to include a very important part of the tool that’s related to users who have conflicting political beliefs about a certain post and need to agree on notes being crucial before they get posted on the platform.
Meta explained during the starting overview how the Community Notes will work like that on X and it needs agreements between people with a certain range of opinions to help eliminate biased ratings.
The idea here is that it would redress any certain bias by making sure there’s an agreement between individuals having opposing beliefs. As proven by studies on X, a lot of the notes never get shared with the users, even if they highlight the misinformation with proof.
Another analysis carried out by the CCDH shared how a mega 73% of Community Notes linked to political matters never show up, even though they’re giving the most valuable context.
The chart highlights more topics that could fail and it’s not surprising that small things such as election disturbances won’t reach agreements from individuals on different sides of the ideology spectrum.
The matter is more important now than ever because it’s at a time when we’re seeing President Trump himself amplifying misleading material and flattening out incorrect data. This could give rise to major problems and eliminate barriers that restrict the amplification of these kinds of claims.
Image: DIW-Aigen
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Now, the company is shedding light on how the feature will work and how users will get into control of what’s real and what’s not across different platforms. After the X’s model, we saw Community Notes really get hyped up for flagging wrong information.
Meta is similarly giving a preview of how users can see this latest feature in action across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. It’s going to put users in the front seat to determine what’s real and what’s not through different platforms.
Meta will give users the option to include their own explainers to see how valid data on a post is through its apps. Thankfully, it won’t extend to include ads. Users will get 500 characters explaining concerns about content and also adding reference links for context.
However, critics were quick to notice how Meta fails to include a very important part of the tool that’s related to users who have conflicting political beliefs about a certain post and need to agree on notes being crucial before they get posted on the platform.
Meta explained during the starting overview how the Community Notes will work like that on X and it needs agreements between people with a certain range of opinions to help eliminate biased ratings.
The idea here is that it would redress any certain bias by making sure there’s an agreement between individuals having opposing beliefs. As proven by studies on X, a lot of the notes never get shared with the users, even if they highlight the misinformation with proof.
Another analysis carried out by the CCDH shared how a mega 73% of Community Notes linked to political matters never show up, even though they’re giving the most valuable context.
The chart highlights more topics that could fail and it’s not surprising that small things such as election disturbances won’t reach agreements from individuals on different sides of the ideology spectrum.
The matter is more important now than ever because it’s at a time when we’re seeing President Trump himself amplifying misleading material and flattening out incorrect data. This could give rise to major problems and eliminate barriers that restrict the amplification of these kinds of claims.
Image: DIW-Aigen
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