Meta’s Community Notes Could Pose ‘Significant Human Rights Risks’ Outside US | PCMag
Meta's Community Notes could be abused by 'coordinated disinformation networks' if they were rolled out outside the US, according to the tech giant’s quasi-independent Oversight Board.
Expanding Meta's Community Notes to countries outside the US could "pose significant human rights risks," according to the tech giant's quasi-independent Oversight Board. The board expressed concerns about how Community Notes could be leveraged by "coordinated disinformation networks" that could abuse them. In addition, the board found Community Notes could, in some contexts, "privilege dominant political, ethnic, or linguistic groups" and marginalize minorities. Meta began to pivot away from using salaried teams of fact-checkers to the crowd-sourced Community Notes model just over a year ago,
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