Meta watchdog says user-generated fact checks risk harm to users

PARIS: The body created by Facebook to review content moderation decisions warned Thursday that user-generated fact-checks could harm people living under repression or conflict if they are introduced worldwide. Facebook parent Meta announced last year that it would end its use of external fact-checkers in the US. That scheme had employed third parties including AFP to expose misinformation. Instead, Meta said it would ask ordinary users to verify controversial claims in a system known as “community notes,” aping methods on X and other social networks.

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