{"id":893980,"date":"2025-01-08T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=893980"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:14:13","slug":"meta-to-scrap-fact-checking-introduces-community-notes-for-users-to-flag-misleading-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/08\/meta-to-scrap-fact-checking-introduces-community-notes-for-users-to-flag-misleading-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to scrap fact-checking, introduces \u2018Community Notes\u2019 for users to flag misleading posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the US and replacing it with a new &#8220;Community Notes&#8221; system, the company announced on Tuesday (January 7). This move mirrors a similar initiative seen on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The new system will empower users on Meta&#8217;s platforms\u2014Facebook, Instagram, and Threads\u2014to flag posts that may be misleading or lack proper context, shifting the responsibility for content moderation away from independent fact-checking organizations and experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the US and replacing it with a new &#8220;Community Notes&#8221; system, the company announced on Tuesday (January 7). This move mirrors a similar initiative seen on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. The new system will empower users on Meta&#8217;s platforms\u2014Facebook, Instagram, and Threads\u2014to flag posts that may be misleading or lack proper context, shifting the responsibility for content moderation away from independent fact-checking organizations and experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}