It is being told that Instagram is working on implementing community notes on its platform. According to a tipster, the platform owned by the meta is adding a new option to write a community note to the published post. The leaked information came a few weeks after Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg, citing censorship mistakes and the closure of the existing fact-oriented program. While the original company has revealed that community notes will be applied to all its social media platforms, it has not announced any release date yet.
According to the threads post of developer Alesandro Paluzi (@Alex193A), community notes feature for Instagram is currently subject to development and is not available to any user. The feature is reportedly in an advanced stage on threads, where community notes are already in the test phase. In particular, Zuckerberg highlighted that this facility would be first implemented in the US, then in the rest of the regions.
In a screenshot shared by Tipster, the feature can be reached by tapping on three vertical dots ahead of each post on Instagram. The option was labeled as “Wrote Community Note” and placed above the report icon. At the moment, it is not known how users will be selected for community notes and how written notes will be evaluated.
Meta stated that community notes would allow people with diverse approaches to give opinion on misleading materials and provide additional references. Eligible users can write background information or provide opinion-based insight, and if the community finds it useful, it will be published under the post.
Zuckerberg explained the decision to discontinue the fact-zancha program in a series Posts On the thread. He said, “Now the time has come for us to return to our roots around independent expression and giving voice to people on our forums.” He also stated that material policies would be simplified and restrictions on immigration, gender and other subjects that are “out of exposure to the mainstream discourse”.
The Community Notes feature was first introduced in 2021 by X (earlier known as Twitter), but it was expanded and popular after Elon Musk’s company handled the company. Many Neitizons have criticized this feature as it snatches power from independent organizations that see objective truth and instead hand over it to a small group which is arbitrarily chosen.
