Meta community notes open to contributors, as Musk threatens to ‘fix’ them on X

Meta community notes are expected to launch within the next couple of months, after the social network announced it would be ending its own fact-checking program because facts are so 2015. You can now apply to be a contributor to these, signing up on one of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meantime, X owner Elon Musk appears to be threatening the impartiality of his platform’s community notes, announcing plans to “fix” the feature … Meta community notes Back in the halcyon days when people cared about whether a claim was true or false, social networks employed professional researchers whose job was to verify claims made on their platforms in order to prevent the spread of misinformation. After Musk bought X, he dispensed with those in favor of Community Notes, in which other X users can add corrections and context to tweets. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that its own social networks would be doing the same. We will end the current third party fact checking program i ... Read full article.