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Meta watchdog says grassroots fact checks risk harm to users
The Oversight Board warns that user-generated fact-checks may cause risks in repressive regimes and conflicts, urging testing and limits before global rollout.
- The Meta Oversight Board warned Thursday that expanding user-generated 'community notes' worldwide could 'pose significant human rights risks and contribute to tangible harms' for people living under repression or conflict.
- Meta announced last year it would end its use of external fact-checkers like AFP, instead asking ordinary users to verify controversial claims in a system known as 'community notes,' aping methods on other social networks.
- The Oversight Board urged Meta to test for 'risks related to contributor anonymity, coordinated disinformation campaigns and gaming of the system' before launch, warning that artificial intelligence makes threats more acute.
- During conflicts, marginalized groups may be unable to counter misinformation, the Oversight Board added; it recommended Meta withhold the feature in countries with 'repressive human rights regimes' or active fighting.
- Without transparency, 'the program risks publishing misleading notes,' the Oversight Board cautioned, recommending that Meta grant outside researchers access to data to ensure accountability and prevent manipulation.
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Meta watchdog says grassroots fact checks risk harm to users
The body created by Facebook to review content moderation decisions warned Thursday that user-generated fact-checks could harm people living under repression or conflict if they are introduced worldwide.
The supervisory board created by Meta to review its moderation decisions warned Thursday against a generalisation of the fact-checking carried out by its own users through its "community notes". Meta announced last year that it intended to end its program of...
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