Fact-checking is coming to Threads app next year

Meta’s Threads social media network will arrive to the EU tomorrow. That much has been confirmed. As we’re waiting for that to happen, the Head of Instagram just confirmed something very interesting. Fact-checking is coming to Threads next year.

Fact-checking is coming to Threads next year, the company’s Head just confirmed

The company wants to moderate user-generated content on Threads, for a good reason. He said that Threads currently “match fact-check ratings from Facebook or Instagram to Threads”, but that’s not good enough.

Adam Mosseri said that Threads’ goal is “for fact-checking partners to have the ability to review and rate misinformation on the app”. He promised to share more information in the near future.

Adam Mosseri did not give us an expected time of arrival for the feature, though. He simply said next year, so… who knows. Perhaps we’ll get an ETA soon, when the company shares more information about the project.

Threads launched back in July, and grew immensely

Having said that, since the original launch back in July, Threads managed to attract plenty of users. In only 7 hours 10 million people started using the platform, which doubles after 12 hours. In October, it was announced that almost 100 million users are using the platform.

Needless to say, Threads grew pretty quickly, and Elon Musk’s X controversy definitely had something to do with that. At the time of launch, Twitter/X was a particularly hot topic.

Now, getting all those users is one thing, keeping them is something entirely different. Meta is doing everything it can to do that, however, as new features keep on coming. The company recently rolled out ‘tags’ to Threads, its own version of hashtags.

The EU launch will take place tomorrow

Threads did not launch in the EU from the get-go, as already mentioned. Regulatory problems are the reason why, but that will change tomorrow. Chances are that Threads’ usage numbers will grow quite a bit following the EU launch, though it would probably have more of an effect if it happened back in July.