Goal He has announced that the test phase of his new system against misinformation will begin next March 18 in the United States and explained some aspects of its operation. Among them, the most striking is that will use your competitor’s algorithm, X‘initially’. This is possible because the algorithm developed by Elon Musk’s network is open sourcewhich means that it is available to be audited -in github- and can be modified and used by third parties. And that is what is doing a goal.
The company of Mark Zuckerberg announced last January that abandoned the data verifiers system to combat misinformation and instead would use a solution such as the Community notes of X. These were designed by the direction prior to Elon Musk In the then call Twitterbut they were deployed after their arrival on the social network. This system allows users to add context to the publications of others and when A sufficient number, with a wide variety of views, are shown in its assessment, the note is visible to the rest. Goal believes that community notes are ‘Less prone to biases’ that data verifiers and also ‘Organized campaigns protection that try to manipulate the system and influence the notes that are published or what they say ‘.
‘We will not reinvent the wheel. Initially, we will use the X Open source algorithm as the basis of our qualification system. This will allow us to take advantage of what X has created and improve it for our own platforms over time‘, says the company in its blog.
200,000 users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads They have signed up for the notes of the Meta community, which still accepts new additions. Goal will gradually and randomly select some of them to start it. The final deployment is not concretized, although the intention is that it is global. ‘We are going to take time to do this well,’ says Meta. Meanwhile, the system with data verifiers will continue in the rest of the countries, including Spain.
Initially, there are some differences with the way X manages its community notes. No name will be associated with them -In x are pseudonyms that mask the real user- and You cannot put notes to advertisements as in xalthough ‘in almost any other form of content, including target publications, our executives, politicians and other public figures’. In addition, they have a limit of 500 words and must include A link that supports the information provided.
Users who contribute must have an account with more than 6 months old and have a verified or activated phone number of 2 steps authentication. The initially available languages are English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Portuguese.
Meta emphasizes that with this system it is not the company that decides which publications need a note, but it will be an exclusively issue of users. Nor does the number of them that are shown in one matter, but a range of people who normally are not in that it is useful. The notes will not affect the visibility of the publications that receive them, as it happens with the qualifications of the data verifiers.