Meta adds new features to Community Notes fact checks, including alerts for corrected posts | TechCrunch

"Meta is introducing a few new features for its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, launched in the U.S. earlier this year. Now, users will be notified when they've interacted with a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads that receives a Community Note. Plus, anyone can now request a note or rate a note if it's been helpful to them."

"Meta's Community Notes system mimics the one Twitter (now called X) first unveiled in 2021. The latter has been criticized by researchers for failing to flag misinformation in a timely fashion and at scale, leaving some to wonder whether Meta's alternative will fare any better. Like X's program, Community Notes are added to a post when different users who typically share opposing viewpoints reach consensus, even if that spans their current ideological lines, political or otherwise."

"The company says these features are considered "tests" at present. Meta CISO Guy Rosen shared on X that since the system's launch, over 70,000 contributors have written 15,000 notes, only 6% of which were published. For a market like the U.S. with hundreds of millions of users across platforms, that's still a small drop in the bucket."

Meta is testing new features for Community Notes that notify users when posts they have interacted with receive a note and allow anyone to request or rate notes. Since launch, more than 70,000 contributors have written 15,000 notes, with roughly 6% published. That contributor activity remains small relative to hundreds of millions of users in the U.S. The system mirrors Twitter/X’s community-note approach, requiring cross-ideological consensus among contributors to append context. Supporters say it can surface misleading content lacking context; critics warn consensus can be hard to reach and corrections often lag viral misinformation.

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