Brace yourselves, social media warriors, because META is launching a new program next week that’ll make you question everything you thought you knew about fact-checking. Starting March 18, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook will debut its crowd-sourced fact-checking initiative called Community Notes, borrowing the concept from Elon Musk’s chaotic Twitter experiment. Because why not emulate a platform known for its misinformation?

After pulling the plug on its original fact-checking program in January, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed those pesky fact-checkers had developed a liberal bias, cue the eye rolls. Still, the collapse of that program left experts shaking their heads in disbelief. One such expert, Dan Evon, from the News Literacy Project’s RumorGuard, lamented that this shift not only stripped users of a crucial resource but also handed legitimacy to the narrative that fact-checking is biased. Naturally, we can’t have a little nuance in the age of online outrage, can we?

Meta first introduced fact-checking in December 2016 as a response to the outcry over ‘fake news’ during the Trump era, stating it worked with over 100 organizations worldwide. But then, Zuck decided that fancy fact-checkers were just interfering with the narrative he wanted to push. Fast forward to today, and we’re left with a system where anyone can be a ‘fact-checker’. Yes, that means your distant cousin with the conspiracy theories might just get a shot at verifying misinformation.

Community Notes is not without its quirks. Contributors in the U.S. will join a waitlist before their notes are published, and don’t expect their opinions to make immediate waves. META claims it will only publish contributions when a spectrum of viewpoints finds common ground. So, if you thought that spreading misinformation was about to get penalized, sorry! Instead, there’s a chance your post could get a shiny Community Note attached without suffering the wrath of reduced distribution. Isn’t that comforting?

For now, the original fact-checks will remain in place outside the U.S. But knowing META, who knows how long that will last? As we embark on this brave new world of truth in a post-fact society, let’s remember: just because we can crowdsource facts doesn’t mean we should. Bravo, META. Just what we needed, a social media circus with an added layer of crowd-based chaos.