Overview
- In a detailed advisory, the board said taking the crowd‑sourced fact‑checking tool beyond the US could cause tangible harms without strict safeguards.
- It recommended withholding the feature in countries with high polarization, active crises or protracted conflict, histories of organized disinformation networks, or significant linguistic complexity.
- The board urged Meta to keep working with professional fact‑checkers, noting that community notes often lean on verified reporting produced by those partners.
- It called for pre‑launch trials that test risks tied to contributor anonymity, coordinated manipulation, gaming of the system, language coverage, and contributor participation, plus data access for outside researchers.
- Meta ended third‑party fact‑checking in the US last year in favor of Community Notes, and it has not said whether it will adopt the board’s international rollout guidance.