This may come as a shock to you, but what people wear social media isn’t always right – really blew his mind, didn’t he? Therefore, it can be difficult for people to know what is real without context or experience in a particular field. That’s why many platforms employ a fact-checking team to keep an eye on what’s being shared (and often they seem to get more attention). Now Threads is getting its own fact-checking app, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram and de facto head of Threads, announced. He shared first the company’s plans to do so in December.
Mosseri said Topics “Recently” did this so that Meta’s third-party fact-checkers could review and rate any inaccurate content on the platform. Before the shift, Meta ran fact-checks on Facebook and Instagram and then matched “almost identical false content” that users shared on Threads. However, there is no word on when exactly the program will launch or if it will be global.
Then there’s the matter of seeing how effective it can actually be. Facebook and Instagram already had these custom fact checkers disinformation widely spread across platforms. With the 2024 Presidential election coming up — and ongoing elections and conflicts happening around the world — is it too much to ask social media companies for some hard fact-checking?
