Meta's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the new system -- popularized by the Elon Musk-owned platform X - in January as he appeared to align himself with the incoming Trump administration, including naming a Republican as the company's head of public policy.
Meta has also scaled back its diversity initiatives and relaxed content moderation rules on Facebook and Instagram, particularly regarding certain forms of hostile speech.
The initiative will allow users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads to write and rate contextual notes on various content.
During the testing period, notes will not immediately appear on content and the company will gradually admit people from the waitlist and thoroughly test the system before public implementation.
Studies have shown Community Notes can help dispel some falsehoods such as vaccine misinformation, but researchers caution that it works best for topics where there is broad consensus.
“Meta has long said it doesn't want to be an 'arbiter of truth,' but it has funded those arbiters for the past several years, and it's not clear whether anyone will step up to replace it,“ tech writer Casey Newton wrote in an online commentary.
Meta's new approach ignores research that shows Community Notes users are often spurred by “partisan motives” and tend to over-target their political opponents, according to Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech.
“This isn’t majority rules,“ the company said.
Notes will be limited to 500 characters, must include supporting links and will initially support six languages commonly used in the United States: English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Portuguese.
“Until Community Notes are launched in other countries, the third party fact checking program will remain in place for them,“ it added.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last month warned that the rollbacks to fact-checking and moderation safeguards were “reopening the floodgates” of hate and violence online.
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