De exacte woorden van Zuckerberg van de zes veranderingen:
1. Replacing Fact-Checkers with Community Notes
First,
we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S. After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth.
But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S. So over the next couple of months, we're going to phase in a more comprehensive Community Note system.
2. Simplifying Content Policies
Second, we're going to simplify our content policies and
get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas. And it's gone too far. I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms.
3. New Approach to Policy Enforcement
Third, we're changing how we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We used to have filters that scan for any policy violation. Now we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations. And for lower severity violations, we're going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action. The problem here is that the filters make mistakes and take down a lot of content that they shouldn't. So by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms. We're also going to tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before taking down content. The reality is that this is a trade off. It means that we're going to catch less bad stuff, but we'll also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.
4. Bringing back Civic Content
Fourth, we're bringing back civic content.
For a while, the community asked to see less politics because it was making people stressed. So we stopped recommending these posts. But it feels like we're in a new era now. And we're getting feedback that people want to see this content again. So we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram and Threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive.
5. Moving our Trust and Safety and Content Moderation Teams
Fifth,
we're going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas. As we work to promote free expression I think that will help build trust to do this work in places where there's less concern about the bias of our teams.
6. Protecting Free Expression Worldwide
Finally, we're going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world, going after American companies and pushing to censor more. The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.
Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down. China has censored our apps from even working in the country. The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the U.S. government.
And that's why it's been so difficult over the past four years, when even the U.S. government has pushed for censorship. By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression and I am excited to take it.