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Meta announced it would move its content reviewers and policy writers from California to Texas.
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The move is part of a broader strategy by the social media company to lessen speech restrictions on the platform.
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The company is ending its fact-checking program and moving to community notes.
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Meta announced it would move its content reviewers and policy writers from California to Texas.
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The move is part of a broader strategy by the social media company to lessen speech restrictions on the platform.
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The company is ending its fact-checking program and moving to community notes.
The massive social networking company Meta said on Tuesday that it would relocate its policy writers and content reviewers from California to Texas.
What We Know: Meta made the announcement that it would discontinue its independent fact-checking program and switch to a system akin to social networking site X, which uses community notes.
In a blog post, Meta stated that its strategy of creating intricate mechanisms to control material on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads “has gone too far.”
The program is ending because the experts had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked, according to Meta, which had been using independent third parties for fact checking.
What We Don’t Know: When the crew decided to relocate to Texas, Meta did not specify where they would be based.
Although the business has an office in Austin, it did not specify if the team would be headquartered there.
There are other available roles on the communications and public policy team that are based in Austin, according to the company’s career page.
Overall View: Meta claimed that it was limiting millions of pieces of content on its platforms every day and that the adjustment was an attempt to reverse “mission creep,” which they believed made the regulations overly onerous and prone to over-enforcement.
A “better way of achieving our original intention of providing people with information about what they’re seeing – and one that’s less prone to bias,” according to the firm, is the shift to a community notes-style of moderation.
Additionally, the business is lifting limits on certain political speech that were previously identified.
They claimed that the content will be ranked according to user signals, such liking a post, and would be treated more like any other content from users and pages they follow.
What’s Next: Meta is now accepting applications to be one of the first users to receive community messages on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
The company stated that it will continue to enhance the system throughout the year and will start the shift to community notes in the US in the coming months.
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