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Latin America fact-check group asks Meta not to replace verification practice

As of Wednesday, Facebook, Instagram and Threads users in 16 Spanish-speaking countries can sign up to provide context to online posts, which will remain invisible to others under the pilot program. The crowdsourced notes system, modeled on the one used by Elon Musk's X, is designed to supplant checks carried out by accredited newsrooms and fact-checking agencies, which Meta ended in the United States last year. The company run by Mark Zuckerber…

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Latin America fact-check group asks Meta not to replace verification practice

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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The absence of a professional verification process on social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram could undermine the quality of public discourse in Latin America, according to specialists. This hypothesis is related to the Notes of the Meta Community, a scheme of collective moderation recently introduced in Spanish-speaking nations and inspired by the model implemented by ...

LatamChequea is made up of 47 verifiers from the region, including Criterion.hn, through its El Mirón section. Written by LatamChequea...

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Meta a annoncé le lancement en phase de test des « notes de la communauté » dans 16 pays d-Amérique latine, un dispositif d-internautes destiné à remplacer le fact-checking sur ses réseaux sociaux. L-initiative intervient un peu moins de deux ans après la transition opérée par Meta aux États-Unis, du fact-checking vers ce système de notes. Ces notes sont produites par des utilisateurs référencés estimant qu-un message nécessite des précisions ou…

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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
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