Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.
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During Meta's Q4 2024 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg took some time to heap praise on Elon Musk, a man he hoped to choke out in an MMA cage match not too long ago. Zuckerberg praised X's Community Notes system for fact-checking,
Mark Zuckerberg lauded Elon Musk's X Community Notes system as more effective than Meta's prior fact-checking method during Meta's Q4 2024 earnings call. Zuckerberg contended that this change would improve Meta's product and countered claims that the company is disengaging from combating misinformation.
Despite past disagreements, Zuckerberg and Musk seem to share common ground when it comes to fact-checking. The Meta CEO justified his company’s shift towards a similar crowdsourced model, explaining that X’s approach—where users add context to posts—has proven to be more reliable than traditional fact-checking methods.