Community Notes

What are Community Notes?

Community Notes is a collaborative fact-checking system implemented and used by X (formerly Twitter)'s where helpful context and verification to online content. When users encounter potentially misleading information, they can write notes providing additional context, cite reliable sources, and rate the helpfulness of other users' notes. The most helpful notes, determined by consensus from a diverse set of contributors, become visible to help others better understand the content. This creates a transparent, community-driven approach to identifying and explaining misleading information in real-time, rather than relying solely on centralized fact-checkers. Our implementation with reasemble to the current implementations with agnostic approach.

Examples

Community Notes are already being used by two platforms (X, Facebook) to provide context and fact-checking. Here are some examples of how they look like in practice:

Community Notes

X's Community Notes is already in production available for everyone (under certain conditions) and proven worthy.

Meta Community Notes

Meta's Community Notes system is currently in Beta Testing not fully available to everyone.

What's the issue with existing implementations?

As far are existing implementations are useful there is few issues:

• Usually it takes a lot of time to get the note approved, especially if it's a new note which allows the misinformation to spread.
• There are not enough community notes editors to effectively cover all platforms separately, leading to fragmented and inconsistent fact-checking efforts.
• They are not platform agnostic, they are only available on X and Facebook.
• Not all of them are open-source, so you can't verify the code nor contribute to them.
• Not all of them are transparent, so you can't see how they work, what is the process of adding a note, how is it moderated, etc.

Our Vision

At FlareFact, we're building Community Notes as an open-source API that any web platform can integrate. Our goal is to create a "verification Wikipedia" - a decentralized, community-driven system where:

• FlareFact Verifications will help prepare the notes, so they can be argued on and approved faster.
• Users can add context and verification to any piece of information, not just social media posts.
• United users from all platforms can contribute to the notes, making it easier to cover more content.
• Platform agnostic, implementation possible for any use case, not necessarily social media apps.
• The community collectively decides what information is accurate and helpful.
• Transparency and openness are core principles.
• Possible rewards for contributors through platforms using the system once they become trustworthy.
• We do understand the dangers of systems like this, so we're planning on having safety features to prevent abuse.
• In the future possiblity of creating global profiles for people like politicians which can describe how manipulative or trustworthy they are.

Why Open Source?

We believe that fact verification should be accessible to everyone. By making the system open-source:

• Any platform can integrate verification system with full understanding.
• Community can freely contribute to the system, without any restrictions.
• Transparent process of development.
• Two heads are better than one - more people contributing means more ideas on improvements or new features.

Transparency

FlareFact's Community Notes is not being built in a vacuum. It is being developed on top of open standards and principles that anyone with the right skills can investigate, implement, and improve. Open systems are trusted, proven, and constantly getting better. Here's how FlareFact will respect the principles behind the open tools on which it relies:

• Open data formats

  All Community Notes data will be stored using open, standardized formats that anyone can inspect and understand. Every data structure will be documented and publicly available, ensuring complete transparency in how information is stored and processed.

• Transparent ranking algorithms

  Our consensus-based ranking system will use algorithms that experts have examined and verified to ensure fair and unbiased note ranking. The entire system will be open-source, allowing researchers and contributors to understand exactly how notes are evaluated and displayed.

• Principled privacy policy

  Privacy is fundamental to our design. Any information you share with us will only ever be used to provide you with service and support. We won't sell your data, and we'll be transparent about how Community Notes data is used and protected.

• Straightforward export tools

  You will have full control over your data with simple export tools that make it easy to move your Community Notes contributions out of the system. Export your notes, ratings, and contribution history at any time. Public notes data will also be accessible via our API for research and analysis.

How to Join?

Getting started with Community Notes is simple! Just sign up for a FlareFact account, and we'll notify you as soon as the feature becomes available. In the meantime, join our Discord community

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Roadmap

We have an exciting vision for the future of Community Notes. Check out our roadmap to see what we're building next and how you can be part of shaping the future of fact verification on the web.