Facebook, Instagram and Threads to start testing community notes on March 18
META will begin testing its community notes model on Facebook, Instagram and threads in the United States on March 18. Notes won't appear publicly on posts immediately. The company wants to ensure that the writing and rating system before the annotation starts to appear in everyone’s situation.
Meta said things will work in a similar way to the community annotation on X, as users bring extra context to posts that can be used with more explanations, clear or corrected. In fact, Meta initially based its rating system on X's open source algorithm. "This will allow us to create content based on X and improve it for our own platform over time," The company said.
Meta notes that it will adjust X's algorithm and community notes plans for its own platform. It may change the algorithm to modify the ranking and ratings of community notes. "We are building this publicly as we learn from contributors and understand how their products work in our products," Mehta wrote. "We don't want this process to be perfect, but we will continue to improve as we learn."
So far, about 200,000 people have it on Facebook, Instagram, and threads. The system will take into account the rating history of each contributor and consider those who tend to disagree with each other. How many contributors have approved a note, it doesn't matter – "People who usually disagree think it provides a useful context." The company claims this is intended as a safeguard against bias.
Meta introduced its fact-checking program in 2016, the idea was that it would rely on expert third-party fact-checking teams to evaluate posts because it did not want to be an arbiter of truth itself. The company believes that experts have their own perspectives and political biases, which influence the choice of fact checking and how to check it.
Of course, contributors to community notes will have their own biases, but not necessarily the knowledge of subject matter experts. Meta still says that consensus among people with various perspectives is enough to publish community notes.
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"Community notes allow more people with more perspectives to add context to more types of content, and since posting notes requires agreements between different people, we think this will be less prone to bias, so" Meta Claim. "This requirement is also a protection against organized sports trying to play games and affect the publication of notes or what they say."
Fact-checked posts are often split by meta-algorithm, but notes don't affect the visibility of posts on Facebook, Instagram, and threads. Comments will be limited to 500 characters and links are required. They won't include the author's name at least at the beginning. It is impossible to submit advertising notes in the beginning, although contributors can write for almost any other post, including the company and its leaders, as well as other public figures.
First, community notes will be available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Portuguese. More languages ​​will be added.
Meta intends to launch community notes in the United States once it meets the program’s more or less way of working. When notes start to appear publicly, the company will no longer display new fact checking labels for third-party fact checkers in the United States. META plans to adopt this approach around the world, but at the same time, it will maintain its fact-checking program in other countries.
However, metadata talks about community notes, and the system is unlikely to be a silver bullet that causes false dispersion. Community notes reportedly did not stop the error message on X. Last month, X boss Elon Musk (now "Special Government Employees") Say he is trying "Make fixed" Community notes, claiming to be "It is increasingly recognized by the government and old media."
This article originally appeared on Engadget
