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Washington Post columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler argues Meta’s Community Attention Fact Check System For posts posted on Facebook, Instagram and Threads were “far from too close to task” in a column posted on Monday.
After four months of participating in Meta’s community notes program and drafting more than 65 notes, Fowler has published only three of the notes proposed, and he said people’s feed is “full of inaccurate information.”
“Zuckerberg fires professional fact checkerlet users fight falsehood with community notes. Columnist asserts.
According to FowlerHe tried his best to avoid bias in the case of fact checks, intentionally drafting “crossing the political scope” and vote on the contributions of other users.
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Fowler argues that Meta’s community-driven fact-checking system is “far less than the task of cracking down on disinformation on its platform.” (Avishek Das/sopa image/lightrocket photo illustration via Getty Images)
“For example, I made notes about fabricated images of Pam Bondi, and false claims about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s wealth, a quarter of a million times.” “I also voted for dozens of notes drafted by others, rated them as ‘useful’ or ‘useless.'”
The columnist admits that community notes do have “the situation”, but he noticed some obvious problems with Meta’s fact-checking system from the outset.
He found: “Sometimes, posts with note notes that I’m sure won’t accept them because they are posted by accounts outside the United States (not included in the initial program of Meta) or other technical issues. I’ve seen other people suggesting notes of low quality, some people have more comments than the facts, or have more comments, or are ‘Google It’.
According to Fowler, one of the root problems facing Meta Community Notes System is the “bridge algorithm” used by the platform to determine which notes have been published and passed. The formula used in the algorithm requires contributors to disagree with each other in past notes to agree to a new note.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta implemented a community notes fact checking program four months ago after reviewing its previous fact checking system. (Matt McClain/Washington Post via Getty Images)
“It’s a good thing in theory. You don’t want to make notes containing fake ones or just attacks on a particular person or idea,” he notes. “However, it’s hard to find consent. Notes I can’t make include facts that shouldn’t be debated, including identifying AI Deepfakes. The system is also not conducive to the unique risks of undermining news and rapidly evolving virus conspiracies.”
Kolina Koltai, who helped develop community notes on X, said the algorithm shared between Meta and X is a “very very conservative system” and better avoid harmful instructions rather than ensuring that useful notes are actually published.
When Fowler approached Meta through his discovery, the social media giant told him that his tests could not be used to evaluate its community-driven fact-checking system, which was active for only four months in four months USA.
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Meta believes that Fowler’s findings cannot be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the platform’s community bill system. (Nikolas Kokovlis/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
“Community Notes are a brand new product that is still in beta and takes time to build a strong community of contributors. While notes are constantly published on topics, Instagram, and Facebook, not every note is helped by the community, even if the notes are written by the Washington Post,” Meta okakeswoman erica erica erica erica erica erica sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sarkin sar
Meta declined to answer Fowler’s question about how many notes the platform has posted, how many users have participated in the program, or whether there is data showing that the program is actually making an impact, despite the company’s promise of transparency to the system.
At the end of July, the Washington Post was forced to correct the story of the Mono and fact checks. Glenn Kessler, an outgoing fact checker, acknowledged that “a previous version of this column mistakenly stated that meta-users can opt out of fact checking. In fact, Meta allows users to opt out of fact checking posts.”
This is the last column for Kessler as fact check. He accepted the buyout And has not been replaced by posts.
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