risks from new guidelines
However, Zuckerberg also admitted that there is a “compromise” in the new guideline and noticed that more harmful content on the platform would appear as a result of the changes in content moderation. The newly appointed Chief of Global Affairs from Meta, Joel Kaplan, told Fox that the partnerships were "meant well at the beginning with external facts, but in what they check and how they do it was simply too much political bias".
one -sided change in meta
The announcement takes place in the middle of an obvious ideological change within the upper ranks of Meta. Zuckerberg tries to improve his relationship with Trump before he will take office later this month. The day before, Meta announced that Trump confidants and UFC CEO Dana White would enter the board, together with two other new directors. Meta has also announced that they donate a million dollars to Trump's inauguration fund and Zuckerberg wants to take on a "more active role" in the discussions about technology policy.
comprehensive U -turn in moderation
The changes in the moderation represent an astonishing turn in the handling of false and misleading claims on Metas platforms. In 2016, the company started an independent factual examination program after it was brought about to prevent foreign actors from using its platforms to spread disinformation.
automated systems revise
The company had set up security teams, introduced automated programs for filtering incorrect claims and established a kind of independent Colonization for delicate moderation decisions, the oversight board. But now Zuckerberg follows the footsteps of the social media pioneer Musk, who, after the acquisition of X, previously known as Twitter in 2022, dissolved the factual test teams and made the user-generated context label called Community notes to correct false claims.
less censorship, but potential new problems
Zuckerberg said that the complex systems for moderation of content had incorrectly removed too much non -violating content from the platform. "We have reached a point where there were simply too many mistakes and too much censorship," said Zuckerberg. However, he also recognized that the new guideline could potentially cause new problems for the content moderation. "The reality is that this is a compromise. This means that we will recognize less harmful content, but we will also reduce the number of contributions and accounts of innocent people that we accidentally remove."
move of teams and other adjustments
The company will also remove content restrictions on certain topics such as immigration and gender identity and reduce the limits of how much policy -related content the users see in their feeds. As part of the changes, Meta will shift its confidence and security teams, which are responsible for the contents guidelines, from California to Texas and to other locations in the USA.
This story is continuously updated.
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