Community Notes in action Users quickly corrected the narrative by flagging false claims through Community Notes. They added factual corrections based on the policeman’s body camera footage, which clearly showed the full interaction and clarified what actually happened.

Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, is a feature on X (formerly Twitter) where contributors can add context such as fact-checks under a post, image or video. It is a community-driven content moderation program, intended to provide helpful and informative context, based on a crowd-sourced system.

Jan 20, 2025 · An overview of the advantages and disadvantages of community notes instead of classic fact checks. Find out how user perspectives influence the discussion climate. Analysis: Can different opinions contribute to finding the truth? Insight: Why collaborative discussion can often be more effective.

Jan 18, 2025 · While skepticism abounds, a deeper examination of Community Notes reveals a system with both potential and limitations, offering a glimpse into the evolving landscape of online content moderation. Community Notes operates on the principle of collective wisdom.

Jan 14, 2025 · The current operation of Community Notes as a fact-checking system is one thing, but at the heart is the bridging algorithm that is designed to select quality notes, despite polarisation among the crowd of users providing and voting on notes.

Jan 10, 2025 · On X, Community Notes works by leaving fact-checking up to the community. Approved contributors call out content deemed false or misleading by attaching notes providing more context. Here's...

Jan 11, 2025 · Learn about Meta's adoption of Community Notes, a crowdsourced content moderation system, to counter misinformation on Facebook and Instagram.

The team that built X’s Community Notes talks about their design process and the philosophy behind their approach to combatting false information on the platform.

Apr 24, 2024 · A new study published in JAMA finds that X's (formerly Twitter's) Community Notes, a crowdsourced approach to addressing misinformation, helped counter false health information in popular posts about COVID-19 vaccines by providing accurate, credible responses.

Nov 8, 2024 · Community Notes is a crowdsourced fact-checking approach that allows users to write textual notes to inform others about potentially misleading posts on X/Twitter. Yet, empirical evidence regarding its effectiveness in reducing engagement with misinformation on …