Meta Tests Fact-Check Replacement in Latin America
Meta says the test will keep professional fact-checking in place for now as 1.4 million U.S. contributors helped drive the shift, the company said.
- Meta announced Wednesday it is testing its Community Notes program in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, aiming to add context to misleading posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
- Less than six months ago, Meta's Oversight Board advised against expanding the program to countries facing societal challenges, after Meta ended its United States fact-checking partnerships last year.
- Angie Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network, said she was "deeply concerned" by Meta's decision, arguing the notes program alone is "simply not adequate" for reducing harmful falsehoods.
- While the United States program has more than 1.4 million contributors producing over 50,000 posts, Meta confirmed no notes will be visible to the public during the Latin American test.
- Announcement of the expansion follows a surge of right-wing electoral victories across Latin America, where new leaders have promised hands-off regulation while modeling their approach on US President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
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The massive collaboration system is designed to replace verifications carried out by data collection and verification agencies.
The initiative comes almost two years after Meta's shutdown of fact-checking in the United States, replaced by this system based on Internet contributions. Several studies have shown that this system is less effective than the work of professionals to combat misinformation.
Meta announced on Wednesday the launch in the testing phase of the "community notes" in 16 Latin American countries, user contributions that are intended to replace the fact-checking on its social networks, raising fears of a resurgence of disinformation.
The Meta group (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) announced Wednesday to test "community notes" in 16 Latin American countries, a device already deployed in the United States to replace its fact-checking program. ...
The initiative comes just under two years after Meta's transition to the "community notes" system in the United States, from fact-checking to the "community notes" system. These notes are produced by referenced users who believe that a message requires clarification or contextualization, most often by joining sources. If enough other contributors, with varying views, consider these notes useful, they will be published on the relevant platform, F…
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Meta tests fact-check replacement in Latin America
Meta said Wednesday it had begun testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, a step toward replacing the professional fact-checking program it runs with partner organizations…
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