Meta Introduces Community Notes to Replace Third-Party Fact-Checking

The new system relies on user-generated annotations to provide context for posts, but its effectiveness and scalability remain uncertain.

Meta's Community Notes program will allow users to annotate posts with additional context, replacing its previous third-party fact-checking system.
The feature is modeled after X's Community Notes and uses a similar open-source algorithm to evaluate the helpfulness and neutrality of annotations.
Unlike the previous system, Community Notes will not reduce the visibility of flagged posts, instead relying on users to interpret the added context.
Critics highlight potential issues, including delays in note visibility, limited global adoption, and the risk of reinforcing false narratives through implied truth effects.
Meta has positioned this rollout as an iterative beta test, with plans to refine the system based on user feedback and algorithmic performance.