{"id":4897,"date":"2025-01-17T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-news&#038;p=4897"},"modified":"2025-01-29T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:42:20","slug":"spotlight-community-notes-instead-of-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"hbi-news","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-news\/news\/spotlight-community-notes-instead-of-fact-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Community Notes Instead of Fact-Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first edition of the new online discussion series \u201cSpotlight\u201d by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/\">Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society<\/a> (HIIG) focused on Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s (CEO Meta) decision to end the collaboration with external fact-checkers in the US for all of Meta&#8217;s platforms (Facebook, Instagram and Threads) and to rely instead on \u201cCommunity Notes\u201d \u2013 an approach similar to that of the platform X.<\/p>\n<p>After short inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/jeanette-hofmann\/\">Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann<\/a> (HIIG) and <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/matthias-c-kettemann\/\">Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann<\/a>, a discussion took place. The event was moderated by <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/katharina-mosene\/\">Katharina Mosene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=egTHIy5w7s8\">Click here to watch the recording of the event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The digital event series \u201cSpotlight\u201d provides a forum for current social issues and is conducted via the Zoom platform. Registration is required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpotlight\u201d is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-projects\/dsa-research-network\/\">DSA Research Network<\/a> project, which is funded by the Mercator Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the event can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/events\/spotlight-community-notes-statt-faktencheck\/\">website<\/a> of the HIIG.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/de-de\/foto\/stuhle-halle-sitze-drinnen-5711169\/\">Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4873,"template":"","categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4897","hbi-news","type-hbi-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spotlight: Community Notes Instead of Fact-Checking - Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first edition of the new online discussion series \u201cSpotlight\u201d at HIIG focused on Mark Zuckerberg&#039;s decision to end the cooperation with external fact-checkers on all of Meta&#039;s platforms (Facebook, Instagram and Threads) in the US and to rely on \u201cCommunity Notes\u201d instead. 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