Changes planned in the United States to the United States will be introduced at some point in Europe, says journalist and non -fiction writer Johanna Vehkoo.
Social media left, including Facebook and Instagram, Meta intends to bring so -called community attention into their services.
Community Notes are from the Community Notes from X familiaritywhere other users can make comments on false or misleading updates. After that, other users can vote on whether the comment is useful in contextual context. If there are enough votes, the note will appear as a kind of “notebook” during the original update.
Meta talked about moving to community note and abandoning its previous factual check program in early January. In the coming months, the reform will be phased out first in the United States.
A journalist and non -fiction writer specializing in Misinformation and factual check Johanna Vehkoo believes that changes are likely to be introduced at some point worldwide.
– Meta no longer wants to support factual check organizations financially. Also, the EU does not require its regulation specifically for factual checking.
Vehkoo writes as a freelance journalist to for the False Revealer series.
Editing Warrings in front
According to Meta, its community note becomes very similar to that of X. Vehkoo says he is skeptical, but he does not completely exclude that the mass -checking factual check can work.
As a benchmark, he takes Wikipedia, which often manages to be relatively reliable but should not be trusted as the only source. After all, anyone may have made the last change in the service.
– Wikipedia has a so -called editootot in the case of a particularly polarizing topic. The updates that are probably also on the side of Community Notes are probably those polarizing topics.
X’s Community Notes made research from time to time Elon Muskwhile the entire beginning of the name was Twitter and the name Birdwatch of the crowded factual check function. Users were more likely to give negative assessments to the repair claims if they disagreed with the repairer politically, and positive if they were politically the same stations.
According to Vehko, there is no evidence that a massive factual check would eliminate the alleged bias, for example, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accused professional factors.
– Community Notes thinks in principle that reviewers are politically skewed. Factor inspectors, or professionals, are trying to do their own work so that their own opinion does not affect.
More effective but more uncertain
According to Vehko, Meta’s previous factual check program is not perfect. In particular, the problem has been that the viral spreading false claims have not been stopped until they have already reached the massive number of users.
– Professional factors can take quite a lot of time to write a factual check story, and Meta has even published them even with a delay of days.
In this light, a crowded factual check offers opportunities: it can be much faster and more effective than professionals’ journalistic work. The same skills can be found in non -journalists.
– Still, we have to skeptical about how many people who really dominate such skills want, or have time to participate in their own time in checking the content of huge social media platforms.
In addition to moderation changes, algorithmic reforms will influence the environment in which social media debate will continue. Meta intends, among other things, to increase the political content it has previously restricted.
However, Vehkoo recalls that these decisions have not yet been made in terms of Europe and the rest of the world.
– In any case, what is happening in the United States has reflective effects everywhere.
Changes in the Social Media Field were discussed on Monday, 20 January: