Meta's Community Notes on FB and Instagram will use tech from X

Meta’s upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation will use some technology developed by Musk’s X for its similar service.

Meta’s upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk’s X for its similar service.

On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog post more details of its new content moderation tool, and said it incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X’s Community Notes. Meta said that over time it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its Facebook, Instagram and Threads apps.

“As X’s algorithm and program information is open source — meaning free and available for anyone to use— we can build on what X has done, learn from the researchers who have studied it, and improve the system for our own platforms,” Meta said in the post. “As our own version develops, we may explore different or adjusted algorithms to support how Community Notes are ranked and rated.”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pitched Community Notes in January as the company’s preferred replacement in the U.S. for third-party fact-checking, which he shuttered as part of a broader policy change that also relaxed certain content moderation guidelines. The company will begin testing Community Notes next week in the U.S. Last month, Meta said that users can apply to become contributors as long as they meet certain requirements, including being over 18 and having a verified phone number.

Contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on advertisements, but will be able to do so on “almost any other forms of content, including posts by Meta, our executives, politicians and other public figures,” the blog post said. Posts hit with Community Notes can’t be appealed, but there’s also no additional penalty for content that’s flagged.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/metas-community-notes-fb-instagram-will-use-tech-x-rcna196210

---