If you're tired of seeing misinformation online, here's your chance to be part of the fight against it.
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Last month, Meta announced that it was ditching its third-party fact checkers in favor of X-style community notes on its social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta will officially roll out the feature in a few months, but you can join the waitlist now to be among the first community notes editors.
How to sign up and what the role entails
If you're not familiar, Meta will soon add community notes to posts with misleading information or missing context. A group of community editors will decide what notes a post will get.
When editors see a misleading post, Meta says, they can "write a note with background info, a tip, or an insight people might find useful." If the note is rated helpful by enough editors, Meta will add it to the post. Meta says it will not decide which posts get community notes. All community notes must follow Meta's Community Standards. Notes must be under 500 characters and include a link.
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The general idea is that a group of individuals with different beliefs will provide better fact-checking than individuals. "Just like they do on X," Meta explained, "Community Notes will require agreement between people with a range of perspectives to help prevent biased ratings." For a community note to be published on a post, users who would normally disagree (based on how they've rated notes in the past) will have to agree that a note is helpful.
Community notes will not be available for ads.
To sign up, visit Meta's community notes page. You'll see a brief explanation of the program along with options to sign up for each individual platform.
Requirements to know
Editors must live in the US, be over 18, have an account that's more than 6 months old and in good standing, and have a verified phone number or two-factor authentication. Eligible contributors will move from the waitlist when the Community Notes beta launches soon.
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