Around 200,000 people have signed up as potential Community Notes contributors so far across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The system will consider the rating history of each contributor and ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has more than 3.35 billion combined monthly active users.

While it’s not perfect, and it remains a contentious element for a range of reasons, X’s Community Notes program continues to expand, with a million X users now actively contributing to its ...

Community Notes got its start on Twitter as Birdwatch ... leading to post retractions by authors. Facebook is largely adopting the same approach that is used on X today. Having studied and ...

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Changes to Meta’s fact-checking mechanisms could exacerbate Facebook’s existing contribution to hate speech and propaganda ...

It’s seems similar to the Community Notes systems already in use on other social media, such as X and Facebook. TikTok is also keeping its current fact-checking systems in place.

Back in January, Meta made a bold move — it dropped third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram and replaced it with community notes. The company said this change was about deepening its ...

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said Jan 7 that the group's platforms including Facebook and Instagram would in future imitate rival X's "Community Notes" feature rather than using professional fact ...

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X launched the first major crowdsourced fact-checking experiment in 2021, originally called Birdwatch and now known as Community Notes. YouTube added its own in 2024, and Meta followed in a ...