Meta Plans To Test and Tinker With X's Community Notes Algorithm (arstechnica.com)
(Thursday March 13, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
from the crowdsourced-fact-checks dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/2056224/meta-plans-to-test-and-tinker-with-xs-community-notes-algorithm
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/meta-plans-to-test-and-tinker-with-xs-community-notes-algorithm/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica:
> Meta [1]plans to test out X's algorithm for Community Notes to crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. In a [2]blog , Meta said the testing in the U.S. would begin March 18, with about 200,000 potential contributors already signed up. Anyone over 18 with a Meta account more than six months old can also join a waitlist of users who will "gradually" and "randomly" be admitted to write and rate cross-platform notes during initial beta testing.
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> Meta claimed that borrowing X's approach would result in "less biased" fact-checking than relying on experts alone. But the social media company will delay publicly posting any notes until it's confident that the system is working. For users of Meta platforms, notes could help flag misleading content overlooked by prior fact-checking efforts. However, Meta confirmed that users will not be allowed to add notes correcting misleading advertisements, which means notes won't help reduce scam ads that The Guardian reported last August have been spreading on Facebook for years.
Meta confirmed that the company plans to tweak X's algorithm over time to develop its own version of community notes, which "may explore different or adjusted algorithms to support how Community Notes are ranked and rated."
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/meta-plans-to-test-and-tinker-with-xs-community-notes-algorithm/
[2] https://about.fb.com/news/2025/03/testing-begins-community-notes-facebook-instagram-threads/
> Meta [1]plans to test out X's algorithm for Community Notes to crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. In a [2]blog , Meta said the testing in the U.S. would begin March 18, with about 200,000 potential contributors already signed up. Anyone over 18 with a Meta account more than six months old can also join a waitlist of users who will "gradually" and "randomly" be admitted to write and rate cross-platform notes during initial beta testing.
>
> Meta claimed that borrowing X's approach would result in "less biased" fact-checking than relying on experts alone. But the social media company will delay publicly posting any notes until it's confident that the system is working. For users of Meta platforms, notes could help flag misleading content overlooked by prior fact-checking efforts. However, Meta confirmed that users will not be allowed to add notes correcting misleading advertisements, which means notes won't help reduce scam ads that The Guardian reported last August have been spreading on Facebook for years.
Meta confirmed that the company plans to tweak X's algorithm over time to develop its own version of community notes, which "may explore different or adjusted algorithms to support how Community Notes are ranked and rated."
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/meta-plans-to-test-and-tinker-with-xs-community-notes-algorithm/
[2] https://about.fb.com/news/2025/03/testing-begins-community-notes-facebook-instagram-threads/
Zuck is a cuck (Score:2)
by haruchai ( 17472 )
even if he hasn't had any gender-affirming surgery, unlike Elon
Community notes fails (Score:2)
by backslashdot ( 95548 )
There is a short window in which to put the community note, if you add it late (because you usually see the offending post late, because the posting idiot's own followers usually see it first and then it rapidly spreads without fact check). By the time you have a fact check or context written out with proper sources, most community note voters have already seen the post and therefore your note will not get enough eyeballs. I've noticed this effect myself. Whenever I put a community note early it gets shown
Why can't advertisers figure out I'm vegetarian? (Score:2)
by blue trane ( 110704 )
Do they make enough money from murder to laugh off mistargeted ads?
I am a Community Noter on X and a Slashdot Mod (Score:2)
Both X and Slashdot's approach to moderation have their pros and cons. On balance, I'd say that X's approach does a better job of suppressing misleading/fraudulent posts, and Slashdot's approach does a better job surfacing higher quality posts.
For a really active site like X where there are huge incentives to try and "shape" opinion, I think their focus on suppressing misleading information is spot on. The difference between "misleading" information vs. the dirty triad ("misinformation, mal-information and
Re: (Score:2)
> the mod system is routinely ... broken and used to suppress unpopular opinions regardless of quality.
Some people like to down mod unpopular and/or inconvenient *truth* too ...
Re: (Score:1)
Slashdot does have meta-moderation, but it seems like moderation by mood affiliation is quite popular here, so meta-moderation doesn't serve the intended purpose. It's really frustrating.
Re: (Score:1)
As I understand the theory, it reduces the frequency/likelihood that "bad" moderators get mod points, and increases the rate for "good" moderators -- but because of that, you won't ever see a direct effect.
Re: (Score:2)
Maybe if it was harder to down-vote a post than to up-vote it that would help. It's too easy now to just get a bunch of like-minded mods to sweep through all top-level comments and mod them Troll, instantly sending them -- and all their associated threads -- past the visibility level of most readers.