Meta Platforms Inc. is set to trial its Community Notes program, a crowd-sourced fact-checking initiative inspired by Elon Musk's X, starting March 18. This program revises Meta's approach to fact-checking by moving away from third-party validators perceived as biased. The company intends to leverage X's open-source algorithm to establish its rating system, promising an adaptable framework that could evolve for its platforms. While aiming for less bias, experts express concerns about the implications of crowd-sourcing in combating misinformation.
"We won't be reinventing the wheel. Initially we will use X's open source algorithm as the basis of our rating system. This will allow us to build on what X has created and improve it for our own platforms over time."
"As X's algorithm and program information is open source - meaning free and available for anyone to use - we can build on what X has done, learn from the researchers who have studied it, and improve the system for our own platforms."
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