Subjects are starting to test community feedback

Last week, Meta decided to do just that Replace its professional fact-checking program With X pattern “Community Feedback” It appears that a version of the feature is already being tested on Threads. Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who frequently posts leaked details about Meta apps, Three screenshots were shared Which offers an early look at what community feedback will look like in threads.

Paluzzi’s images show a new “Write a community note” option in the menu you can access in the corner of the Topics post. If you select it, it looks like you’ll be able to submit your feedback anonymously, and if it’s marked as helpful, it will appear at the bottom of the post. The whole setup is not unlike how X uses community feedback, which started out as a feature called “bird-watching” On Twitter before Elon Musk acquired He renamed the company.

Engadget has reached out to Meta for information about the new topics feature and we will update this post if we learn more.

Community feedback is just one of the ways topics are changing under Meta’s new approach to moderation. The application that was Against participation and promotion Of the “political” content, you will now too Suggest political posts. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram and Threads, explained how you can adjust the amount of political content you see in your feed A short video shared on today’s topics. Meta gives users three options to choose from: “See less,” which attempts to weed out political content, “Standard,” which suggests some political content, and “See more,” which treats political content like everything else in the app.

It’s not clear whether community feedback or switching political content addresses the actual issues users have with threads, or whether it will make anyone happier. It fits the “free speech warrior” image that Meta is trying to project.