Meta announced on Thursday that it's now accepting sign ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

After announcing its plan to end third-party fact-checking in January 2025, Meta's crowdsourced replacement is finally starting to take shape. You can now join a waitlist to be a Community Notes contributor on Facebook,

As spotted by Engadget, Meta’s community notes website has links to sign up for waitlists for Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta plans to phase in community notes “over the next few months,” according to the website.

The latest from Meta and Instagram brings new advanced and exciting features to the Instagram DMs, including music sharing.

Instagram is adding a handful of new features to direct messages, including scheduling messages, translating and pinning them and sharing your favorite songs. The big picture: The new features make the app more like Apple messages and makes it easier to manage conversations without switching apps.

Instagram is upgrading its direct messages, also known as DMs, with a handful of new features that make its messaging system more competitive with