Meta to get rid of fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram
Meta to get rid of fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram
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News feeds will also be filled with more political content. Meta will get rid of fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram. The company will instead rely on its users to report false stories and misleading information through a “Communities Notes” system like the one used on X/Twitter, it said.
It will also allow people to share more kinds of political content, such as posting on inflammatory topics. And it said that it would no longer proactively look for policy violations on those topics, and instead wait until users report them. The changes would allow for more “free expression” on Facebook and Instagram, the company claimed.
It argued that its attempts to crack down on misleading stories on social media was “well-intentioned” but had “gone too far”, and it claimed that people were being falsely banned from posting as a result. Meta also said that it expected to take down far fewer political posts than it has in the past. It would tweak its systems so that they would not proactively spot political posts, and so that those posts are less likely to be demoted on news feeds.
Since 2021, Meta has been working to reduce the amount of political content that appears in users’ feeds, pointing to feedback from users about wanting to see less of it. Now Meta has called that a “pretty blunt approach”, and said that it would start pushing that content back onto Facebook and Instagram.
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