The technology giant says it expects the new functionality to be “less biased” than the previous third -party factory program.
Meta said its functionality as “community notes” intended to replace third -party facts will use the open source algorithm developed by Elon Musk’s.
General meta Mark Zuckerberg announced the upheaval of moderation in January In the midst of a wave of Big Tech movements to enter the administration of the President of the United States Donald Trump.
This decision has followed years of accusations of the conservatives that the efforts to verify the facts have often qualified the legitimate points of view of poor information for political or ideological reasons.
While Meta’s announcement was greeted by Trump and many conservatives, disinformation researchers warned that this decision would add faked claims and false news to the tidal tide.
In a blog article on Thursday, Meta said that using X technology for the Crowdsourcée fact checking tools would allow it to “improve it for our own platforms over time”.
“As our own version develops, we can explore different or adjusted algorithms to support the way in which community notes are classified and evaluated,” said Meta.
“We build this in the open air while learning contributors and seeing how it works in practice in our products. We do not expect this process to be perfect, but we will continue to improve as we learn. »»
Meta, who owns Facebook, Instagram and Threats, said that she would start to test the functionality on March 18 and that 200,000 potential contributors have registered so far to help assess the precision of the content on her platforms.
The California -based technology giant has said that notes would only be published if they are deemed exact by contributors with a diverse range of points of view.
“We expect the community notes to be less biased than the third -party fact verification program that it replaces and operate on a larger scale when it is fully operational,” said Meta.
“When we launched the fact verification program in 2016, we were clear that we did not want to be the referees of the truth and we thought that turning to organizations of expert facts was the best solution available.”
Meta has said that new feature will be deployed in the United States after beta tests and that it can possibly introduce functionality for all users around the world.
