The end of the goal to the verification of facts of third -party ‘pragmatic’

RedditThe co -founder says GoalThe decision to finalize the verification of third parties on their platforms was a “pragmatic”, which characterized the movement as a reversal of an unfeasible program.

In January, a few days before Donald Trump swore as president of the United States for the second time, Meta announced that he would end the verification of third -party facts on their platforms, a program often criticized by Trump and conservatives by What they say Unjustly directed right -wing content.

In a series of radical policy changes in the media giant, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would install a community based system.

“It was a very pragmatic change,” said Reddit co -founder Alexis Ohanian, CNBC at the Web Summit in Qatar on Sunday, adding that “it is impossible to verify the events on scale, much less in real time, as Facebook was trying to do.”

“In many ways, I think they were going back to something that was a bad idea from the beginning because it was unsustainable,” Ohanian added.

Goal launched its global Fact verification program in 2016 In an attempt to address erroneous information, and since then it has been associated with verification organizations in more than 100 countries. The reversal will begin in the United States, According to the companyAnd it will still not affect other countries.

The Reddit co -founder, who created the “Internet cover” in 2005, also intervened in the future of social networks. “I think we will reach a place where we, as users, can choose our algorithms, and because, without a doubt, these platforms, we are all encouraged to have the best possible algorithm, not for anything sinister, but because we want to keep the people committed,” he said.

Reddit, which was made public in March last year and was valued at $ 6.4 billion, was one of the first social media platforms and began when MySpace still dominated the user’s screens. Reddit has fought with moderation in its own history, eventually prohibiting the pornography of revenge and taking energetic measures against racism and misogyny in its communities. Today, the platform has more than 70 million daily active users and has “specific rules of the community” in individual or subnet communities.

In a publication about the new Meta content moderation policies, Joel Kaplan, director of World Meta Affairs, wrote“Starting in the US, we are finishing our third -party fact verification program and we moved to a model of community notes.”

Kaplan added that Meta “would adopt a more personalized approach to political content, so that people who want to see more in their feeds can.”

Meta did not respond immediately to the request for comments from CNBC.

The community notes model is also favored by the X, owned by Elon Musk, which says it aims to “create a better informed world by empowering people in X to add in collaboration a context to potentially misleading publications.”

Kaplan praised the success of X with the model, saying: “We have seen this approach to work in X, where they train their community to decide when publications are potentially misleading and need more context, and people in a wide range of perspectives decide what type of context is useful for other users to see it.”

Kaplan, an outstanding Republican who replaced Nick Clegg in Meta, added that “finishing platforms are built to be places where people can express themselves freely. That can be disorderly. On platforms where billions of people can have a voice, everything good, bad and ugly is on display. But that is free expression.”

After the inauguration of Trump, Zuckerberg joined a series of greats US companies in final programs designed for diversity, equity and inclusion. The Boss goal recently expressed its regret for some of the company’s decisions in a letter To the Congress, in which he said that the Biden administration had pressed to Meta to censure a certain content around COVID-19.