Meta Expands Community Notes With New Features, Shares Early Adoption Data

Meta has introduced new updates to its Community Notes system, expanding its crowd-sourced fact-checking experiment while providing new statistics on how the feature is being used. The updates aim to increase user input, refine the quality of published notes, and better address misinformation circulating on the platform.

The most visible change is the addition of an upvote/downvote option that lets users rate whether a Community Note was helpful. This feedback will help Meta refine both the visibility of individual notes and the overall system. In another update, all users will now be able to request a Community Note on any post, broadening participation in the process. Meta is also adding notifications to alert users when a post they previously engaged with later receives a note, an effort to counter misinformation that may have already spread.

Alongside these product changes, Meta provided a snapshot of Community Notes adoption since the feature launched in the U.S. earlier this year. The company said more than 250,000 contributors have been admitted, with around 70,000 actively participating. To date, contributors have created approximately 15,000 notes, though only 6% have been published and made visible to users. That low publication rate mirrors issues observed with X’s Community Notes, where the vast majority of proposed notes never appear publicly.

For now, Meta’s Community Notes remain limited to the U.S., with the company continuing to rely on third-party fact-checkers in other regions. Whether the feature will expand internationally remains unclear, though Meta has signaled it is still learning from how U.S. users engage with the system.