After two weeks of unknown, Goal has confirmed that will continue using the Data verifiers Outside the United States, ‘for now’despite the plans to stop collaborating with them in Facebook, Instagram and Threads In the United States. Nicola MendelsohnGlobal Meta Business Director, he said in an interview with Bloomberg that the company will observe how the new approach in the United States develops before considering similar changes in other regionsespecially in places with stricter regulations on ‘misinformation’, such as European Union.
Mendelsohn affirmed to the environment that ‘we will see how this works throughout the year. So, for the moment, there are no changes in the rest of the world; We continue working with these data verifiers around the world ‘. In Spain, companies such as Newtral and Damned They are responsible for providing this service to finishing platforms.
Two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced a radical change in the goal moderation policies. In addition to one greater permissiveness in the issues that users can debate without being censored by the company and a lower dependence on automated systems that detect the infractions, goal will replace ‘in the coming months’ to the data verifiers by A system similar to community notes That X, then Twitter still deployed in a general way after the purchase of the platform by Elon Musk.
The notes of the Meta community, in any case, They will not work exactly like X. While on the Elon Musk platform they can be applied to both the content published by users and the ads, On Facebook, Instagram and Threads cannot be used with advertising. Therefore, if a company publishes advertisements that users consider deceptive, they will not be able to point it out through this system.
This system requires that a sufficient number of users, with different ideological inclinations, are shown in accordance with the publication of a note on a certain topic. Only when a certain degree of consensus between users with different points of view is reached, the note becomes visible to the restin addition to those who participate in the evaluation system, something that anyone can sign.
Target has assured that it has planned Perfect the system throughout 2025taking into account users’ comments and evaluating their general effectiveness on platforms.
This change of direction in goal, almost a decade after starting the data verification program in 2016, arrives, he explained Joel Kaplanthe recently appointed director of Global Affairs in Meta, because ‘we are making too many mistakes, frustrating our users and, too often, interposing ourselves in the path of freedom of expression that we set out to allow. Too much harmless content is censored, too many people are unfairly locked in the “Facebook prison” and, often, we are too slow to answer. ‘
Kaplan also said that ‘experts, like everyone else, They have their own biases and perspectives. This was reflected in the decisions that some took on what to verify and how. Over time, we end up with too much verified content that people understand as a legitimate political discourse and debate. A program aimed at informing too frequently became a tool to censor‘.
Zuckerberg, in a video posted by announcing the decision, criticized ‘traditional governments and media’ by Press ‘to censor more and more’ And he said that ‘we are going to return to our roots and we will focus on reducing errors, simplifying our policies and Restore freedom of expression on our platforms‘.