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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelvin Chan, The Associated Press:
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"Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, says it’s scrapping its fact checking program. Under this program, it worked with independent fact checking groups around the world to debunk posts, videos and other types of content. And The Associated Press was once involved in this program, but ended its participation a year ago.So now Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, wants to take a different approach. He’s pivoting instead to community notes, which is something that first appeared on X, formerly known as Twitter and was championed by Elon Musk. It’s so community notes involves crowdsourced contributions from users who can attach their own notes to potentially misleading posts to kind of push back on what’s being said. Meta says its content moderation systems have become too complex and have gone too far and are censoring too much content by accident. So what they’re doing is they’re easing up on restrictions on certain types of topics that have become part of the mainstream discussion, such as immigration and gender. And instead they’re going to focus on more highly violative posts such as drugs, child sexual exploitation and terrorism. Meta says that the reason its scrapping the fact checking program is because experts have their own biases and perspectives. But that’s something that the experts are pushing strongly against. They’re rejecting this, and they’re saying that it’s because of political pressure. And it does appear that Meta is kind of moving with the political winds ahead of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, who, let’s not forget, was once banned from Facebook. Even Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged this. He’s he said today that the recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritising speech."
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3. Engineers working at Meta
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4. Threads app on phone
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5. Exterior of Facebook headquarters
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6. Mid Street sign reading (English) "Hacker Way" at Facebook headquarters
7. Mid Facebook employees entering building
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8. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook presentation at annual developers conference
STORYLINE:
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with Community Notes written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
Starting in the U.S., Meta will end its fact-checking program with independent third parties. The company said it decided to end the program because expert fact checkers had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked.
Instead, it will pivot to a Community Notes model that uses crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users.
“We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context,” Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post.
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