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Meta is launching Community Notes in the US next week


Next week, Meta will begin one of the company's most significant overhauls ever for how it fact-checks information on its platforms. On March 18, Meta

The program copies a crowdsourced fact-checking system that Twitter unveiled in 2021 and that became the sole means of correcting misleading information after Elon Musk turned the platform into X. X has led the industry’s effort, with Elon Musk claiming to center his social platform around “free speech.” OpenAI recently announced it was changing how it trains AI models to embrace “intellectual freedom ” and said it would work to not censor certain viewpoints. On the positive side, researchers have found that people tend to see Community Notes as more trustworthy than flags from third-party fact checkers, according to a study published in the journal Science.

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