SAN FRANCISCO - Social media giant Meta on March 13 announced it would begin testing its new “Community Notes” feature across its platforms in the United States next week, as it shifts away from third-party fact-checking toward a crowd-sourced approach to content moderation.

Meta will soon roll out its new fact-checking replacement, Community Notes, a crowd-sourced tool that will sunset the company's third party fact-checking team in favor of what Meta alleges is a "less biased" way to curb 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