FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta is seen at the entrance of the company's temporary stand ahead of WEF in Davos ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have something new in common. It turns out Meta is following in X's footsteps on community ...

One Friday in April, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, announced that the process of removing fact-checking ...

X launched the first major crowdsourced fact-checking experiment in 2021, originally called Birdwatch and now known as Community Notes. YouTube added its own in 2024, and Meta followed in a ...

The decision to switch to the Community Notes system is partly based on past criticism of Meta's fact-checking ... Meta will initially rely on X's existing algorithm as the basis for its system but ...

Meta has adopted X’s Community Notes algorithm for its own apps. But while TikTok’s approach may be inspired by X, the company plans to use its own algorithm for Footnotes. It’s not yet clear exactly ...

"As our own version develops, we may explore different or adjusted algorithms to support how Community Notes are ranked and rated," it says. Meta is rolling this out in the US first; elsewhere ...