signed up<\/a> so far across all three apps, and the waitlist remains open for those who wish to take part in the program. But notes won\u2019t initially appear on content. We will start by gradually and randomly admitting people off of the waitlist, and will take time to test the writing and rating system before any notes are published publicly.<\/span><\/p>\nHow Do Community Notes Work?<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Many of you will be familiar with X\u2019s Community Notes system, in which users add context to posts. That\u2019s the broad approach we are adopting.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Meta won\u2019t decide what gets rated or written \u2013 contributors from our community will. And to safeguard against bias, notes won\u2019t be published unless contributors with a range of viewpoints broadly agree on them.<\/span><\/li>\n
- This isn\u2019t majority rules. No matter how many contributors agree on a note, it won\u2019t be published unless people who normally disagree decide that it provides helpful context.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Community Notes will have a limit of 500 characters and will need to include a link to support the note.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- To start with, notes won\u2019t have author names attached to them. We want notes to be rated based on whether the context they add is helpful, not on who wrote them.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- Contributors need to be over 18, have an account that\u2019s more than 6 months old and in good standing, and either have a verified phone number or be enrolled in two-factor authentication.<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Community Notes feature will be available in 6 languages commonly used in the United States to start, including: English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Portuguese, and we will expand to other languages with time.<\/span><\/li>\n
- To start with, contributors will not be able to submit notes on advertisements. They can, however, write and submit notes on almost any other forms of content, including posts by Meta, our executives, politicians and other public figures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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How Are We Building Community Notes?<\/b><\/p>\n\n- We won\u2019t be reinventing the wheel. Initially we will use X\u2019s open source algorithm as the basis of our rating system. This will allow us to build on what X has created and improve it for our own platforms over time.<\/span><\/li>\n
- The rating system will take into account each contributor\u2019s rating history and evaluate which contributors normally disagree.<\/span><\/li>\n
- As X\u2019s algorithm and program information is open source \u2013 meaning free and available for anyone to use \u2013 we can build on what X has done, learn from the researchers who have studied it, and improve the system for our own platforms. As our own version develops, we may explore different or adjusted algorithms to support how Community Notes are ranked and rated.<\/span><\/li>\n
- We\u2019re building this in the open while learning from contributors and seeing how it works in practice in our products. We don\u2019t expect this process to be perfect but we\u2019ll continue to improve as we learn.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWe expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third party fact checking program it replaces, and to operate at a greater scale when it is fully up and running. When we launched the fact checking program in 2016, we were clear that we didn\u2019t want to be the arbiters of truth and believed that turning to expert fact checking organizations was the best solution available. But that\u2019s not how it played out, particularly in the United States. Experts, like everyone else, have their own political biases and perspectives. This showed up in the choices some made about what to fact check and how.<\/span><\/p>\nCommunity Notes allow more people with more perspectives to add context to more types of content, and because publishing a note requires agreement between different people, we believe it will be less prone to bias. This requirement is also a safeguard against organized campaigns attempting to game the system and influence what notes get published or what they say.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nNotes also won\u2019t have penalties associated with them the way fact checks did. Fact checked posts often had their distribution across our platforms reduced. That won\u2019t be the case with posts that have notes applied to them. Notes will provide extra context, but they won\u2019t impact who can see the content or how widely it can be shared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOur plan is to roll out Community Notes across the United States once we are comfortable from the initial beta testing that the program is working in broadly the way we believe it should, though we will continue to learn and improve it as we go. Once Notes begin to appear publicly, no new fact check labels from third party fact checkers will appear in the United States, though fact checkers are free to become Community Notes contributors alongside other users of our platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOur intention is ultimately to roll out this new approach to our users all over the world, but we won\u2019t be doing that immediately. Until Community Notes are launched in other countries, the third party fact checking program will remain in place for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n