It’s a 180-degree shift in moderation – at least on the surface. Tuesday January 7, Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of changes to the policy for managing content deemed problematic on the social networks Facebook and Instagram: the manager of Meta is notably ending the fact-checking partnership program established for nearly ten years. years, with media around the world to combat disinformation.
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Meta’s “information verification program” has until now allowed media or non-governmental organizations to have a special role on Facebook or Instagram and to publish “verifications” that appear under messages misleading or false, selected and verified by these partners, who were also paid for this work. In France, Agence France-Presse is one of these partners – The World was also for several years.
This program was created at a time when Facebook and Instagram were accused of being relays of disinformation and incitement to hatred. It allowed Meta management to highlight its use of information professionals to improve its image on this point. The scope of this program, however, has always been relatively limited. Verification messages, by nature, often do not appear until several hours or days after a message is published, limiting their effectiveness; only a tiny minority of the enormous quantity of messages published on Meta’s platforms was, moreover, subject to verification.
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