Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook, Instagram and Threads will no longer strictly moderate the content of users, and accused Europe of “institutionalizing censorship”.Mark Zuckerberg recognized the presence of censorship on the social networks Facebook, Instagram and Threads and announced a sharp weakening of the moderation of content. With such video message the head of Meta
Platforms Inc. he spoke on Tuesday, 7 January. Now the Meta Meta group’s social media system of fact-checking is in place. As said on the Facebook website, “independent outside fact-checking organizations are involved, certified by the Independent International Fact Checking Network or the European Fact Checking Network .”
Now Zuckerberg has announced the cancellation of this system, as it has, in his words, slipped into censorship. In return, the businessman introduces the Community Notes system, which is already in the Social Network X Ilon Mask. There themselves the users complain about inadmissible content and correct errors. Zuckerberg directly said that the new system will
“look like X.” “When Trump was elected in 2016 in the traditional media wrote nonstop how disinformation threatens democracy. We have honestly attempted to resolve these problems, without being arbitrators of truth. “But factcheckers have proven to be overly politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they have created, especially
especially in the U.S.”, Zuckerberg admitted. “It’s time to return to our foundations in the issue of free expression of opinions on Facebook and Instagram, ” the head of Meta declared. – – The Government and traditional media are increasingly more
and more intent on censorship. Much of this is obviously related to politics.”many complex systems to moderate content. But the problem of complex systems is that they make errors. Even if they accidentally censor only 1% of content, it is always millions of people. “And we have reached the point where there are too many errors and censorship,”
Zuckerberg continued, promising “to restore freedom of expression on our platforms. According to his words, from now on Facebook, Instagram and Threads the policy of regulating content. The Social Media Management intends to “waive many restrictions on such topics as immigration
or gender, if they don’t comply with the discourse in traditional media.” Will change and the approach to the regulation of content. This is “to reduce the errors that account for the overwhelming majority of censorship on our platform,” said Zuckerberg. “According to his words,
now the automatic Meta filters will block only severe violations, while the detection of significant violations will trust users. “The problem is that the filters make errors. They block too much content that we shouldn’t have. “By turning them back, we intend to significantly reduce the volume of
censorship on our platforms,” Said Zuckerberg. He also has promised to return to recommending political content, as “it seems “we are now in a new
era. In addition, Zuckerberg decided that the Meta teams for the moderation of content will move from California to Texas. Earlier the same same decision about
SpaceX was made by Ilon Musk. At the end of the statement Zuckerberg promised that he would fight censorship and in other countries, including European ones, along with the president-electUS Donald Trump. “We will work with President Trump, to reclaim the authorities of countries around the world that oppress American companies and promote censorship. The US has the strongest
in the world constitutional protection of freedom of word. Europe has enacted the most legislation to institutionalize censorship, “making it harder to create anything innovative there,” Said Zuckerberg. He also mentioned censorship
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