What is Community Notes? How does it work? With Meta removing fact-check — all you need to know explained

Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms on January 7, announced the company’s pivot from professional fact-checking of content to reliance on “Community Notes” type crowdsourced features for posts. And with that came a variety of responses — negative, positive and memes. The change will be applicable across Meta’s platforms including Facebook and Instagram.

Community Notes is a feature kick-started by Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter), where users sign up to rate and write notes on posts offering a wide range of perspectives.