Facebook groups can now hire group experts

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The Facebook platform introduced a new feature called Group Experts, which allows administrators to identify members who are very familiar with the topic of the group. Facebook Groups are a place for subject matter experts covering a wide range of topics. These knowledgeable members often join conversations to answer questions, offer ideas, and provide support.

These experts are of great importance to members, as their contributions to the groups help to build trust among the community. The group's experts get a badge next to their name to prove it. This badge appears across posts, comments, and in the Q&A feature.

Group experts are selected by the group's administrators, and experts are granted this status once they have accepted the nomination. Administrators can also revoke expert status. Facebook is testing ways to make it easier for administrators to find these experts by asking specific users who are currently in the gaming and fitness spaces to add games or activities they know about.

Group admins can search these topics to find new group experts. Administrators can also collaborate with these members to host questions and answers, respond to members' questions, and share views.

Facebook Adds Group Experts Feature

This method acts as a growth engine for groups as well, as new experts can invite followers who have recently interacted with their homepage to join the group as well. However, if a group nominates an untrustworthy expert or if that group is intentionally involved in spreading misinformation, it is exclusively up to the officials to remove them from expert status.

For example, groups that advance anti-ethnic cleansing agendas may not nominate traditional doctors or public health officials as experts. Therefore, while the expert mark determines the confidence of moderators, it does not objectively qualify a person as a true expert.

When asked about additional moderation tools to ensure the group's experts provide accurate information, a Facebook spokesperson listed the specific ways the company handles wrong information across the platform. Such as a third-party fact-checker and reduce the distribution of content reported as misleading.

He added that members can always report content to group admins. Facebook believes that the group's experts support administrators in enhancing the quality of conversations and making it easier to discover valuable content. This results in a more rewarding experience for members.

The company wants to further promote the group feature that allows users to join a community on specific topics and interact with other people. Last month, the platform began offering live audio rooms to users as an alternative to Twitter and Clubhouse spaces.

The social network also announced its podcast platform, which is now available to podcast makers.