Meta announced last week that it would be ditching its fact-checking tool in favor of X-like community notes, which it explained itself. ““Leaker” Alessandro Palucci Screenshot shared on Monday Here’s what the function will look like in a thread:
According to the screenshot, it appears that you can start the community note-taking process from the three-dot menu on the post. Here you can already access features like muting an account or reporting a post. Another screenshot shows that when you write a community note, your note is made anonymous.
The third screenshot shows the Instagram Help Center page for Community Notes with a button to sign up for the program’s waitlist. However, the layout of the page looks different from other live Help Center pages you can see.
Mehta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
meta said last week They plan to “phase in Community Notes in the US over the coming months” and “make improvements throughout the year,” but the thread didn’t specify exactly when the feature would be available. My colleague Alex Heath reported on Sunday that community notes “were not part of the product roadmap before this week.”
In addition to the transition to Community Notes, Meta said it would remove “various restrictions” on topics such as immigration and gender and phase a “civic content” back to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Adam Mosseri, president of Instagram, released the following video today: How to set it up The amount of political content you see in a thread.