Meta's Community Notes will use open-source technology from Elon Musk's X

Meta's upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk's X for its similar service. On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog post more details of its new content moderation tool, and said it incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes. Meta said that over time it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its Facebook, Instagram and Threads apps. "As X's algorithm and program information is open source — meaning free and available for anyone to use— we can build on what X has done, learn from the researchers who have studied it, and improve the system for our own platforms," Meta said in the post. "As our own version develops, we may explore different or adjusted algorithms to support how Community Notes are ranked and rated." Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pitched Community Notes in January as the company's preferred replacement in the U.S. for third-party fact-checking, ... Read full article.