Meta’s upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation will use some technology developed by Musk’s X for its similar service.

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 has said its new content moderation tool incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X’s Community Notes and it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its Facebook, Instagram a

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.

Meta said on Thursday it would begin testing community notes on its social media platforms in the United States from March 18, two months after shutting down its U.S. fact-checking program following years of criticism from conservatives.

Meta will test Community Notes in the US starting March 18. This uses X's technology and allows users to flag false or misleading content. About 200,000 users have signed up to contribute. The system replaces third-party fact-checking with a crowd-sourced model.

Meta said it will begin testing fact-checking in the U.S. through Community Notes across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads on March 18 onwards and will use the open-source algorithm from rival Elon Musk's X as the basis of its rating system.

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk were once poised to fight in a cage match in 2023, before Zuckerberg called it off, saying that Musk was "not serious." Now, the two billionaires have gone from the brink of battle to using each other's technology.

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.