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Meta ends third-party fact-checking programme, adopts X-like 'Community Notes' model

Economic Times

Economic Times · 6m ago

Meta ends third-party fact-checking programme, adopts X-like 'Community Notes' model

Meta Platforms is ending its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S., shifting to a model called 'Community Notes', akin to the system used on another social media platform, X. This transition represents a significant change in how the company addresses misinformation on its platform, relying more on community-driven efforts to check facts and provide additional context to potentially misleading or false information shared by users.

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Economic Times · 6m ago

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X Rolls Out Community Notes In India To Combat Misinformation

Elon Musk's microblogging platform, X, has launched the Community Notes program in India to promote fact-checking on the platform. This feature allows users to add context and collaborate in combatting potentially misleading posts. Community Notes was first introduced in the US in 2021 and is now expanding to include contributors from 69 countries. The notes are created independently by contributors and cannot be modified by X. The algorithm used for Community Notes is open source and transparent, allowing for auditing and improvements. X will only intervene if a note violates platform rules or privacy policies.

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