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Meta Tests Community Notes Requests, Ratings and Alerts

The company is probing whether wider input with notifications helps its crowdsourced context system address misinformation more effectively.

Overview

  • Meta is testing controls that let any user request a Community Note on a post or rate an existing note’s helpfulness.
  • People will be notified when posts they interacted with on Facebook, Instagram or Threads receive a Community Note.
  • Meta’s Guy Rosen says more than 70,000 contributors have written over 15,000 notes, with roughly 6% published so far.
  • Community Notes replaced the company’s U.S. third-party fact-checking in April, and writing notes still requires an application.
  • Researchers and advocates warn the model can be slow or unseen, citing CDT’s finding that over 70% of accurate election notes were never shown to users and noting similar critiques of X’s program.