Meta mimics X on fact ‘pass the buck’: Zuckerberg to follow Musk’s Community Notes approach

Social media companies are increasingly relying on fact-checks by their users, thereby offloading the responsibility for moderating factually incorrect content in controversial posts.

From next week, Meta will begin testing a crowdsourced Community Notes approach across Facebook, Instagram and Threads, starting with the US. It is being widely seen in news verification circles as Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg’s way to curry favour with the Trump administration that in the past has popularised the phrase“alternative facts”.