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Title: Meta tests letting anyone rate Community Notes

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:12:08 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-te...

As part of a new test, Meta will let anyone rate a Community Note or request
one for a post, Meta's Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen shared on
X. After testing the feature in March, the company formally introduced
Community Notes as a replacement for its fact-checking program in April of
this year.

You have to apply to actually write Community Notes, but Meta's new test
means that anyone who sees one can rate it to signal whether it's helpful or
not. They'll also be able to request a note if a post is incorrect or needs
additional context. Based on the screenshot Rosen shared, Meta's rating
system is a simple thumbs up or down, but the fact the company is opening the
system up to more input at all is one sign of its continued expansion.

WeΓÇÖre testing new Community Notes features at Meta:
Anyone can now request a note or rate if a note is helpful
- Users get notified when posts theyΓÇÖve interacted with receive a Community
Note
- 70,000+ contributors have written 15,000+ notes (6% published).
Learn more or join:… pic.twitter.com/WCQC3CMnbe

ΓÇö Guy Rosen (@guyro) September 10, 2025

The test also includes a new system for notifying users if they interact with
a post that receives a Community Note. Meta did something similar with posts
that were fact-checked in the past, so this seems like a good way to let
people know if they've read something misleading. Don't expect to be
receiving those notifications too often just yet, though. Rosen says that
while there are over 70,000 people writing Community Notes and over 15,000
notes have actually been written, only six percent have been published. Meta
is still very early in this whole process.

Community Notes are just one component of a larger right-wing turn Meta has
taken in the wake of Trump's reelection. While the system has been styled as
pro-free speech, it doesn't necessarily offer the same ability to counter
misinformation that fact-checking does. For example, multiple reports found
that X's Community Notes program did little to address the platform's
misinformation problem.

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https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-te...
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