Mark Zuckerberg Eliminates worries about users leaving YuanAfter the company decided to end its platform fact checking process. respond to criticism Number of execution threadsDuring this period, Zuckerberg maintained a confident posture. When one user expressed that people felt trapped on Meta’s platform and questioned its influence, he responded, “No, I’m counting on these changes actually making our platform better,” and dismissed this departure It’s called “virtue signaling.”
Zuckerberg was responding to a post from Threads user Mary-Frances Makichen, a self-described “spiritual guru” and author with 253 followers. The user wrote: “Meta and Zuckerberg are counting on it being hard for people to leave Threads and IG. Meta is suffocating us. They make money off our existence to stay in business, but it’s hard for people to leave. This is not a great Loops. Meta is a system based on negative feedback loops that are constantly self-reinforcing.
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What Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to say
Replying to the post, Meta CEO said: “I think Community Notes Being more effective than fact-checkers, reducing the number of people whose accounts are wrongly banned is a good thing, people want to be able to discuss civil topics and make arguments that mainstream political discourse, etc. Users will find that these changes make the product better.
Meta ends its fact-checking program
Zuckerberg’s comments came a day after Meta announced plans to replace its third-party fact-checking partnerships with a crowdsourced community annotation system similar to the one used by X (formerly Twitter).
The company announced the end of its third-party fact-checking program in the United States. The move comes as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for re-election. Zuckerberg revealed that the company will replace the fact-checking process with a community-based system similar to the “community annotation” model used by Facebook. MuskSocial platform X.
