Threads begins testing community notes
Last week, Meta decided it would be replace its professional fact-checking program with X style “Community Notes” and it looks like a version of the feature is already being tested in threads. Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who frequently posts leaked details about Meta’s apps, shared three screenshots which is a first look at what the community notes will look like in threads.
Paluzzi’s images show a new “Write Community Note” option in the menu, which you can access in the corner of a Threads post. If you select it, it appears you can submit your note anonymously. If it is rated as helpful, it will appear below the post. The whole setup is no different from the way X uses Community Notes, which comes as a feature called “ “Bird watching” already on Twitter Elon Musk took over and renamed the company.
Engadget has reached out to Meta for information on the new Threads feature and will update this post if we learn more.
Community Notes are just one of the ways threads are changing with Meta’s new approach to moderation. The app that was against sharing and promoting of “political” content, now too Suggest political contributions. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram and Threads, showed how you can adjust the amount of political content you see in your feed a short video shared in threads today. Meta gives users three options to choose from: “Show Less,” which attempts to weed out political content, “Standard,” which suggests some political content, and “Show More,” which treats political content like everything else in the app.
It’s not clear whether community notes or switching for political content solve users’ actual problems with threads or whether they make anyone happier. However, they fit the “free speech warrior” image that Meta is trying to project.
