Meta, Now Fact-Check Free, Is Testing X-Style Community Notes
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.
Meta's Community Notes test begins next week - with X's algorithm
Ready for crowdsourced fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads? 200,000 people have sign up so far - and the waitlist remains open.
Meta plans to test and tinker with X’s community notes algorithm
In a blog, Meta said the testing in the US would begin March 18, with about 200,000 potential contributors already signed up. Anyone over 18 with a Meta account more than six months old can also join a waitlist of users who will "gradually" and "randomly" be admitted to write and rate cross-platform notes during initial beta testing.
Meta starts testing Community Notes in the US
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,
Meta’s new Community Notes: all you need to know
Meta will begin testing the Community Notes feature across all its platforms in the U.S. soon.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox
Meta will use the exact same community notes tech as X
As X’s algorithm is open source—meaning free and available for anyone to use (or attack, apparently)—it’s perfectly legal for Meta to just swipe it and reconfigure it for its own purposes. (Kind of like big tech is doing to some other things in the world right now.
Meta says testing has begun for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
But notes won’t initially appear on content. We will start by gradually and randomly admitting people off of the waitlist, and will take time to test the writing and rating system before any notes are published publicly.
Fact Checking: Meta will soon launch community notes for fact checking, will compete with Musk..
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced that it will begin testing its new ‘Community Notes’ fact-checking program on March 18, 2025. The initiative is inspired by Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and will focus on crowd-sourcing-based verification instead of traditional fact-checking.
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