Asked for her response on Meta’s decision to employ a community notes model, rather than use fact-checkers, X CEO Linda Yaccarino had a simple response: “How cool is that?”
Rather than using staff fact-checkers, the community notes model will allow users to flag certain statements or topics, while allowing broader discussions of topics such as immigration, gender identity and gender. The model follows the model recently employed by X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I think it’s really exciting when you think about community notes being good for the world,” Yaccarino said on stage at CES in Las Vegas Tuesday. “It couldn’t be more validating than to see that Mark and Meta realized that.”
Yaccarino called the community notes model the “most effective, fastest fact-checking, without bias” and added that it “inspires great behavior” on the platform.
“When a post is noted, it’s dramatically shared less,” she said. “So that’s the power of community notes, and we say, Mark, Meta, welcome to the party.”
Asked if she believed Meta’s decision was really about free speech, as X has said its decision was, Yaccarino said “absolutely.”
“I think that people all around the world have spoken,” she said.
More to come.
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