The CEO and founder of Meta announced that they will work together with the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, to reduce censorship and guarantee freedom on all their platforms. The ads integrate five major changes to content policies.
Mark Zuckerbergthe founder and CEO of Goalannounced through social networks that the content policies of their platforms will undergo major changes, which include the end of your fact-checking (digital verification) in the United States, in order to “prioritize the freedom of expression“.
In the video where he disseminated all the measures and modifications that will be implemented, Zuckerberg detailed that the change of government, with the election of donald trump as president-elect, “feels like a cultural turning point“.
Goal had suffered harsh criticism by users, especially Republicans, who complained about a large number of censorship of content and its limitation on freedom of expression to publish their ideas and thoughts.
What are the main modifications that Instagram and Facebook will have
He CEO stated that these measures were taken because “fact checkers have been too politically biased and they destroyed more trust of what they have created, especially in the United States” and stated that they want “go back to the roots, reduce errors and restore free expression on your platforms“. These are the five ads The most important changes to the policies of Meta platforms are:
- Replace Fact-Chekers with Community Notes: They seek to reduce censorship errors and attacks on democracy, and will be initially implemented in the United States.
- Simplification in content policy: reduce restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender, so that each user can openly express their opinions on the topics they want.
- New approach to policy implementation: reduce platform errors by modifying the filters of publications and content. There will be a double check before unsubscribing or censoring any type of content, which will cause bad or incorrect information to persist, but will also reduce the number of posts that are erroneously unsubscribed.
- Bring back civic content: There was a time when the community asked to see less politics so as not to get stressed, but today Meta considers that they should once again disseminate this type of content in society and on their platforms.
- Transfer of trust, security and content moderation teams: They will move their team from California to Texas, in order to build trust in a more suitable environment.
After the most important announcements, Zuckerberg He stressed that his company will work together with trump to reduce censorship and attack towards Meta, in order to rbuild freedom of expression within all its platforms. “It’s time to reduce errors, simplify our systems, go back to the roots and give people a voice,” the official announcement concluded.
Source: Ambito
