The co-chairwoman of Meta’s oversight board said she is “very concerned” by the social media company’s decision to scrap its top-down fact-checking system and instead opt for X’s community notes approach to combat disinformation and hate speech.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, also a former prime minister of Denmark, told BBC News that although she thinks it is good for Facebook and Instagram users to have more of a say in determining a post’s accuracy, there was concern for how this would affect minority groups such as the LGBT community.
“We are seeing many instances where hate speech can lead to real-life harm, so we will be watching that space very carefully,” Thorning-Schmidt said in the interview.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that after nearly nine years, the social media company was abandoning its independent fact-checking in an effort to ensure…
