Goal has finished its data verification program For their Instagram, Facebook and Threads applications in the United States to give way to ‘community notes’. Although this decision made by Mark Zuckerberg’s company only affects the US country, the Canadian Technology company Telus He has fired 2,000 people from their Barcelona content moderation center (Spain) At the end of this program.
The agency Reuters He informs that the company sent an email to its workers, indicating that Meta suspended the services on April 1. However, Tesla is providing support to all members of the team affected during the negotiations, in addition, a Meta spokesman states that the company has transferred the services provided from Barcelona to other locations.
In addition, this agency adds that Employees were suspendedwith complete salaries but without work to do. But what services were provided from the offices located in the Glòries tower of the city? The Barcelona team included content moderation services in Catalan, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Portuguese and Spanish; Therefore, after this wave of layoffs, Goal will stop analyzing hatred incitement and other types of infractions In Instagram, Facebook and Threads publications.
Why does your data verification program end?
Meta leaves its data verification program because It will begin the integration of the ‘community notes’which will appear gradually as the new content verification option – as if it were the contents verification tool of the social network X (Twitter) -.
This has been detailed by the Director of Global Affairs, Joel Kaplan, in an X post, where he has indicated that “There will be no new verifications or verifiers”taking into account that the sanctions imposed by the verification program have also been eliminated when deceptive content was identified.
In case you did not know, the content verification program offered users more information about what they saw on the Internet to have more informative context to the publications considered as erroneous or false.
This is the substitute for the data verification program
The ‘Community notes’ They will come into operation from March 18 in the United States. This novelty has the same operation as the X content verification tool, where users can Add context to publications to combat misinformation.
On the other hand, it is important to mention that Goal will not decide what is qualified or writtensince the community collaborators will do. In addition, to avoid biases, The notes will not be published unless there is a broad consensus Among collaborators with different points of view.
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