In a blog post Thursday, Meta announced it is accepting sign-ups for the Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram and threads. The announcement follows Meta News last month, ending its third-party fact-checking program and instead moved to a community note model similar to X.
In a blog post, Meta explains that community notes will be a way for users across the platform to determine when a post is misleading and allow them to add context to their posts.
Starting today, people can sign up to become one of the first contributors to the program. To sign up, users must be based in the US and over the age of 18. Additionally, users must have a validated phone number or registered account for two-factor authentication, in good condition for at least six months.
According to Meta, contributors can write community notes and submit posts that they find misleading and confused. Like X, notes can contain background information, hints, or other details that you think are useful to the user.
Notes have a 500 character limit and must include a link.
“For a community note to be published in a post, users who disagree normally need to agree that the note is useful based on how they have evaluated the note in the past,” explains Meta. . “If there is no agreement or people agree, and the note is not useful, the note will not be added to the content.”
Meta says community memos are written and valued by contributors, not by technology giants themselves. All notes must follow the community standards of the meta.
“We're going to be transparent about how different perspectives are notified by the notes displayed on the app and how we're working on the right way to share this information,” Meta says.
The company plans to introduce community notes in the US over the next few months. Meta is not sharing when it plans to bring functionality to additional countries.
Meta's decision to drop the community note fact check is considered a company that is relocated to President Trump as it takes an approach in favor of unlimited speeches online. When Meta announced the changes, Mark Zuckerberg said in the video that the fact checkers had destroyed “political bias” and “more trust than they created.”