Meta starts accepting sign-ups for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Meet Declaration Thursday in a blog post that it is now Take-up Its community on Facebook, Instagram and threads for note programs. The announcement followed Meta News last month that it was about to finish its third party fact-checking program and instead of running A community note model Like x

In its blog post, the meta explains that community notes will be a way to decide when posts are confusing for users across its platforms and allowing to add more context to posts.

From today, people can sign up among the first contributors of the program. To sign up, users must be located in the United States and be older than 18 years of age. Also, users must have an account that is more than six months old and in good condition, as well as enrollment of a verified phone number or two-quality authentication.

Meta says that contributors will be able to write and submit a community note to posts that they think they are confusing or misleading. Like X, the notes may include things like background information, a tip or other details such as users can be useful.

Notes will have a 500-character limit and it has to include a link.

Meta explains, “To publish a community note in a post, users who have not usually agreed on how the notes have rated notes in the past, have to agree that a note is helpful,” explains the meta. “When there is no agreement or when people are not not helpful, the notes will not be added to the content.”

Meta says that the notes of the community will be written and rated by the contributors, not the technology giants themselves. All notes must comply with the quality of the Meta community.

“We want to be transparent about how we notify the notes displayed in our applications and are working in the right way to share this information,” Meta said.

The company has planned to launch notes in the United States for the next few months. Meta did not share when planning to bring the feature to additional countries.

Meta’s decision to exclude Fact-Checking for community notes has been seen as a representative company for Trump’s President, as it takes such an outlook for unlimited speech online. When Meta announced the change, Mark Zuckerberg Says in a video These fact-checkers were “very politically biased” and destroyed “more confidence than they made.”