The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvafaces again a computer giant: the president strongly repudiated the decision of the founder and executive director of Goal, Mark Zuckerbergto eliminate false information mechanisms on Instagram and Facebook. “ What we really want is for each country to have its sovereignty protected.”held.
In detail, Zuckerberg announced this week the cessation of his fake news checking systems, after pointing out that Latin American courts control the information that circulates on social networks. Given this, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court, also said that the company must comply with Brazilian lawbeyond what he described as “bravado” of company directors.
The conflict between Meta and Brazil
The president of Brazil criticized the technology giant’s move to stop controlling the information circulating on social networks. Lula pointed directly to the problems that false data generate about the authority and independence of nations: ““It cannot be that one, two or three people believe they can hurt the sovereignty of a nation,” he detailed.
Along these lines, he expanded: “I am going to hold a meeting to discuss the Meta issue. It seems very serious to me that there are people who want digital communication not to have the same responsibility. than someone who commits a crime in the written press”.
For his part, the Federal Public Ministry of Sao Paulo asked the North American company to clarify whether the content moderation policy changes will be implemented in Brazilian territory. From the environment of Zuckerberg will have 30 business days to respond.
“There are those who want digital communication not to have the same responsibility as someone who commits a crime in the written press,” compared the president and stated: “It is like If a citizen could be punished for what he does in real lifeand could not be punished for what he does in the virtual world“.
Changes to Meta’s data control policy
The Meta company announced last Tuesday that it will replace its independent fact-checking program in the USA. Zuckerberg himself was in charge of explaining the decision and pointed out that the check system had “too many mistakes” and “too much censorship”.
“We are going to eliminate the fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to those of X, starting in the United States, ”said the Meta CEO in a video posted on social networks with the title” more speech, less errors. “
Until now, the program external meta verification started in 2016 and employed more than 90 organizations verifying content in more than 60 languages. “We build complex systems to moderate content,” said Zuckerberg, who then analyzed: “the problem with complex systems is that they make mistakes. The recent elections They also seem to be a point of cultural inflection towards reprioritizing freedom of expression”.
“We try in good faith to address those concerns without becoming arbiters of the truth. But the fact-checkers have been too politically biased,” he noted, although Zuckerberg did not give details or examples of those verifications that have been biased.
Thus, Meta hopes to implement a system of fact-checking similar to that ofthe social network run by Elon Muskin which the community itself verifies the published data through a notes model. In addition, content policies will also be simplified and restrictions on topics such as immigration and gender will be eliminated, which, according to Zuckerberg, They are not aligned with the dominant discourse.
Source: Ambito
