Meta plans to test out X’s algorithm for Community Notes to crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
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 claimed that borrowing X’s approach would result in “less biased” fact-checking than relying on experts alone. But the social media company will delay publicly posting any notes until it’s confident that the system is working.