Soon, you’ll be able to moderate Meta content in exchange for $0
Meta just released new details on its Community Notes program, “The new way for people on Facebook, Instagram and Threads to decide when to add more context to posts that are potentially misleading or confusing.”
Basically, beginning next week, if the spirit moves you more than financial compensation, you, the user, can take over from third-party fact-checkers, who previously moderated content for money. But instead of removing content, you’re adding to it.
“We expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third party fact checking program it replaces because it allows more people with more perspectives to add context to posts,” the company said in a blog post.
The move, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January, positions Zuckerberg and his Meta social media platforms closer to X and Elon Musk.
Indeed, Meta is using X’s open-source algorithm as the basis of its ratings system.
For now, Meta will be testing the program by allowing some of the 200,000 people on its waitlist to write notes on content. The company won’t publish the comments until after it tests the writing and ratings system, it said, and when they are published, won’t include names.
“We’re going to take time to do this right,” the site reads.
Approved adult contributors can’t add notes to advertisements but they can try and correct Meta executives, the company said.
“We expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third party fact checking program it replaces because it allows more people with more perspectives to add context to posts,” the company said in a blog post.
The move, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January, positions Zuckerberg and his Meta social media platforms closer to X and Elon Musk.
Indeed, Meta is using X’s open-source algorithm as the basis of its ratings system.
For now, Meta will be testing the program by allowing some of the 200,000 people on its waitlist to write notes on content. The company won’t publish the comments until after it tests the writing and ratings system, it said, and when they are published, won’t include names.
“We’re going to take time to do this right,” the site reads.
Approved adult contributors can’t add notes to advertisements but they can try and correct Meta executives, the company said.
