You can now sign up to be a contributor to Meta's Community Notes feature<p>After announcing its plan to <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-ditching-third-party-fact-checkers-on-facebook-instagram-142330246.html" data-original-link="
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-ditching-third-party-fact-checkers-on-facebook-instagram-142330246.html">end third-party fact-checking[/url] in January 2025, Meta's crowdsourced replacement is finally starting to take shape. You can now join a waitlist to be <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://about.meta.com/technologies/community-notes" data-original-link="
https://about.meta.com/technologies/community-notes">a Community Notes contributor[/url] on Facebook, Instagram and Threads when the feature rolls out in the coming months.</p>
<p>Contributors are expect to provide context via a note when a post on one of Meta's platforms "might be inaccurate or confusing," according to the company's sign-up page. Community Notes will be able to be added to "most public content across Facebook, Instagram and Threads" and must be <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://x.com/MetaNewsroom/status/1892648704852557931" data-original-link="
https://x.com/MetaNewsroom/status/1892648704852557931">500 characters or fewer[/url]. Any note is also subject to Meta's Community Standards and the judgment of other contributors. Meta expects contributors to rate notes so that the correct context gets displayed under posts.</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>To sign-up, you need to be based in the US, be over the age of 18, have a Meta account that's more than six months old and in good standing and have either a verified phone number or two-factor authentication. Meta says contributors will start to be taken off the waitlist once the Community Notes beta launches. The company hasn't given a hard date for the launch, but does mention that Community Notes will be phased in "over the next few months."</p>
<p>Meta started <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/threads-is-starting-to-test-community-notes-232150151.html" data-original-link="
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/threads-is-starting-to-test-community-notes-232150151.html">testing Community Notes on Threads[/url] a little over a month ago. The feature, in name and basic functionality, is inspired by X's Community Notes, which <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-community-notes-rolling-out-globally-195650660.html" data-original-link="
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-community-notes-rolling-out-globally-195650660.html">originally launched in 2022[/url] when the company was still known as Twitter. Community Notes and other crowdsourced pseudo-fact checks have been tested on Google platforms like <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/youtubes-community-notes-feature-rips-a-page-out-of-xs-playbook-162145673.html" data-original-link="
https://www.engadget.com/youtubes-community-notes-feature-rips-a-page-out-of-xs-playbook-162145673.html">YouTube[/url] and <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:7;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://www.engadget.com/google-is-testing-community-sourced-notes-for-search-results-173022736.html" data-original-link="
https://www.engadget.com/google-is-testing-community-sourced-notes-for-search-results-173022736.html">Search[/url] as well, and they all have the same general weakness. A crowdsourced answer doesn't come with the same guarantee of accuracy as one provided by someone whose sole job it is to be an impartial fact-checker. </p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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You can now sign up to be a contributor to Meta's Community Notes feature
