The next feature of the notes of the Meta community to monitor erroneous information through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by the X of Elon Musk for its similar service.
On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog post more details of his new content moderation tool, and said that he incorporates the same open source algorithm that drives the notes of the community of X. Meta said that over time he plans to modify the algorithm to better serve his Facebook, Instagram and Threads applications better.
“As the X algorithm and the program information is open source, which means free and available for anyone to use, we can build on what X has done, learn from researchers who have studied it and improve the system for our own platforms,” said target in the publication. “As our own version develops, we can explore different or tight algorithms to support how community notes are classified and qualified.”
The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, launched community notes in January such as the company’s favorite replacement in the USA. UU. To verify by third parties, which closed as part of a broader policy change that also relaxed certain guidelines for content moderation. The company will begin to test the community notes next week in the US. Last month, goal said that users can request becoming taxpayers whenever they meet certain requirements, including those over 18 and have a verified telephone number.
Taxpayers will not be able to send community notes on advertisements, but they can do so in “almost any other form of content, including target publications, our executives, politicians and other public figures,” said the blog post. You cannot appeal the publications with community notes, but there is also no additional penalty for the marked content.
“The notes will provide an additional context, but they will not affect who can see the content or how wide it can be shared,” said the blog post.
Meta does not plan to open code or publicly publish more technical details about its community notes system, but is considering the option for the future, said Rachel Lambert, director of Meta Product Management, at a media conference.
Until now, around 200,000 people have registered to become taxpayers of community notes “and the waiting list is still open for those who wish to participate in the program,” said the company’s blog post.
Neil Johnson, Professor of Physics from the George Washington University and an expert in how the wrong information and hate discourse propagate online, told CNBC in February that a community notes program can help provide context for online content, but it is not a substitute for the “formal verification.”
Johnson characterized a model of community notes as an “imperfect system” that can be exploited by large groups or organizations with their own agendas.
Meta said in the blog publication that “publishing a note requires an agreement between different people”, a policy that helps “safeguard against organized campaigns trying to play the system and influence what the notes are published or what they say.”
The company said the model will be expanded throughout the country “once we are comfortable for the initial beta tests that the program is working widely in the way we believe that we should, although we will continue learning and improving as we move forward.”
