2 years may seem short to academic folks, but realize for contrast MANY products are launched based on interviews of 6-10 people (*often ignored/discounted), and maybe an A/B test or two.
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After Musk took over, over half of the team quit or were laid off. I’ve not heard of any substantial subsequent expansion. It’s possible, but given Musk’s attitude towards research, I don’t imagine that’s a part of it.
This to say, CN is not getting any sort of “acceleration”. Instead, it is PROPPED UP BY years of careful and diligent work by a team that’s mostly no longer there, without which it would have fallen apart long ago.
(3) Meta is fundamentally incapable of making a program like this work. Way back in the day (~2018), my first project there was “Community Review” - a program intended to supplement 3PFC misinformation ratings with lay person ratings. https://about.fb.com/news/2019/12/helping-fact-checkers/amp/
“Community” is a misnomer there. The raters were paid labelers via a 3rd party contractor. The idea was floated repeatedly of expanding the program to users. There was NEVER appetite or funding to take the time to address known risks to make a community approach work.
Moreover, Twitter was suited to this approach in ways that Meta properties just aren’t — people truly valued the platform/their communities & were motivated to contribute to give back, there were many expert users who could provide context in their areas, and users generally were more tech savvy.
(4) That CN is not working well now re: coverage, does not mean a community labeling/moderation program cannot work. The resource and support rug was pulled out from under BW JUST AS we were rolling out to the US.
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