Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg said that, effectively, Meta was getting out of the ‘caring about the truth’ business and ditching third-party fact-checkers. Now it’s handing over the keys to its users. Meta announced that it will start to roll out a Community Notes feature, similar to the one on X, across its major social platforms.

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Social media giant Meta is testing Community Notes, its X-like fact-checking system, from March 18, across its family of apps in the US. Unlike traditional fact-checking that relied on independent media organizations,