Announce its plans End third-party fact check In January 2025, Meta’s crowdsourcing alternatives finally began to take shape. You can now add to the waitlist form Community Note Contributor On Facebook, Instagram, and threading, the feature is available in the coming months.
According to the company’s registration page, contributors are expected to provide context through comments when one of Meta’s platforms is “possibly inaccurate or confusing.” Community notes will be able to be added to “most public content in most Facebook, Instagram and threads” and must be 500 characters or less. Any notes also comply with the Metacommunity standards and the judgment of other contributors. Meta expects contributors to rate notes so that the correct context is displayed under the post.
To register, you need to establish a 18-year-old over in the United States, have a meta account over six months old, have a good reputation, and have a verified phone number or two-factor authentication. Meta said that once community notes are released, contributors will start to be removed from the waitlist. The company didn’t have a tough date for release, but did mention that community notes will be phased in “the next few months.”
The beginning of the year Community notes for testing threads More than a month ago. This feature is inspired by the community annotation of the name and basic functions, Originally launched in 2022 When the company is still called Twitter. Community notes and other crowdsourcing fake fact checks have been tested on Google Platform Youtube and search Again, they all share the same general weakness. The accuracy of crowdsourcing answers is not as accurate as that provided by the fair fact checker provided by the sole worker.
