Meta is ditching professional fact-checking for crowd-sourced ‘wisdom.’ Let’s see how this plays out. In January, Meta announced the end of third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

The move comes after Meta discontinued its official fact-checking program in January 2025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that fact-checkers had become politically biased. However, the decision was heavily criticized and many media experts and misinformation analysts warned that it could amount to legitimizing misinformation.

Meta will begin one of the company's most significant overhauls ever for how it fact-checks information on its platforms. On March 18, Meta

Meta on Thursday said Facebook and Instagram will launch its new Community Notes feature on March 18 in the U.S.

With misinformation spreading rapidly on social media, Meta's shift to crowd-sourced fact-checking is a bold move. However, whether Community Notes can effectively counter false information without penalizing misleading content remains to be seen.

Tech giant Meta has confirmed that it’s going to be using Elon Musk’s X technology for its much anticipated crowdsourced fact-checking feature called Community Notes. The news is not too surprising considering X was the first to have Community Notes as a part of its program.

Meta revealed more details of Community Notes, and said that it incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X’s crowdsourced feature.

Meta will begin testing its Community Notes feature, which replaces fact-checking with crowdsourced commentary, next week. It relies on X's open-source tech.