Meta will begin testing ‘Community Notes’ in the US from March 18, using a technology developed by Elon Musk-owned X, two months after the Facebook parent decided to scrap its fact-checking programme amid pressure from conservatives.

As part of the move, Meta will allow contributors to write and rate notes on content across Facebook, Instagram and Threads, it said yesterday, according to a Reuters report.

The switch to Community Notes marks Meta‘s biggest overhaul of its approach to managing content on its services in recent memory and comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been signalling a desire to mend fences with the Trump administration.

The company will use X’s open-source algorithm as the basis of its rating system, it said. The contributors will have to include a link to support their notes.

Around 200,000 potential contributors in the US have signed up so far across all the three apps, Meta said. The Community Notes feature will have a limit of 500 characters, with an initial availability in six languages —English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, French and Portuguese.

“We expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third-party fact-checking program it replaces,” Meta said. The fact-checking program, launched in 2016, is used to address dubious claims posted on Meta’s social media platforms.