Jan. 9 (Portaltic/EP) –
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has defended changes to the moderation system, which involve verification of content by the community rather than independent experts, and changes to its policies, saying they will make its platforms “better.” “.
Meta announced on Monday the adoption of a content verification system based on community notes, similar to that used by the social network X, to combat misinformation on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Currently, third-party verifiers review user posts and rate them for accuracy. However, Zuckerberg believes that “community notes will be more effective than fact checkers,” as he has defended in a post in Threads.
Specifically, the manager has argued that “it is good to reduce the number of people whose accounts are banned by mistake” and that “people want to be able to discuss civic issues and make arguments that are in the mainstream of political discourse, etc.”
He is also aware that these changes will lead some people to abandon their social networks, but he believes that “the vast majority and many new users will find that these changes make the products better.”
CHANGES IN ITS POLICY ON HATE
The change in the moderation system is accompanied by modifications in the policies of the social networks Facebook, Instagram and Threads, such as those already introduced in the section ‘Hateful conduct’ in the rules of use in the United States.
In a statement shared on MondayDirector of Global Affairs, Joel Kaplan, alleged that in recent years they have developed “complex systems to manage the content of our platforms, the implementation of which is becoming increasingly complicated.”
“As a result, we have been over-enforcing our rules, limiting legitimate political debate, censoring too much trivial content, and subjecting too many people to frustrating enforcement actions,” he adds.
According to Kaplan, to address this situation, they have decided to “eliminate a series of restrictions on topics such as immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political speeches and debates,” because “it is not right that things can be said on television or in the plenary session of Congress, but not on our platforms.
These changes mean, for example, that moderation measures will no longer focus so much on hate speech but on hate behavior. From now on, they will admit insults or expressions of hate when used with a “clear intention” to “condemn the speech or denounce it”, and will stop eliminating, within dehumanizing speech, “statements of inferiority, expressions of contempt or disgust; insults; and calls for exclusion or segregation.”
“People also sometimes express gender- or sex-exclusive language when talking about access to spaces that are often limited by sex or gender, such as access to bathrooms, specific schools, specific military, police, or teaching functions, and health or support groups. Other times, they ask for exclusion or use insulting language in the context of discussing political or religious topics, such as when talking about transgender rights, immigration, or homosexuality. Finally, sometimes people insult people. a gender in the context of a romantic breakup. policies are designed to allow space for this type of discourse,” adds Meta in the changes.
Likewise, they stop prohibiting “content that advocates gender-based limitations for military, police and teaching jobs. Also the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs.”
They eliminate the ban on insults about intellectual ability (dumb, stupid, idiot), education (illiterate, uneducated), mental health (mentally ill, mentally retarded, crazy, insane), moral characteristics relating to character traits culturally perceived as negative (coward, liar, arrogant, ignorant) and derogatory terms related to sexual activity (whore, slut, perverts).
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