Mark Jones, Defence and Investigations expert, examines the implications of this move and emphasises the importance of safeguarding accountability while ensuring user protection online.
Mark Comments:
“Meta is to adopt a crowd-sourced approach to fact-checking – where other users add caveats or context to posts. Other users will now decide whether posts are potentially misleading and need more context instead of external fact-checkers.”
“This decision re-ignites the debate of free speech versus moderation of potentially harmful content.”
“Is delegating moderation of content to other users the best way of moderating content and creating a safe online space? Surely, it simply increases the amount of misinformation and disinformation online. Delegating fact-checking to other users, who may not know the truth behind a story or post, increases the risks of misleading, harmful and just plain wrong content being available online.”
“For now, Meta has no plans to end fact-checking in the EU. But is it only a matter of time before they seek to?”
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