User:J.pshine5t/Twitter Community Notes
Twitter#Censorship and moderation
Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch)
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As part of its means to moderate misinformation, Twitter launched its crowd-sourced Birdwatch program in January 2021 with 1,000 users.[1] In November 2022, at the request of new owner Elon Musk, Birdwatch was rebranded to Community Notes and expanded to Europe and more countries outside of the US.[2][3][4] Community Notes started to become widespread on Twitter in 2023.[3] Musk describes Community notes as a "game changer for combating wrong information".[4]
Community Notes users are volunteers with access to a playful interface from which they have the ability to monitor tweets and replies that may include misinformation.[4][1] In November 2021, Twitter announced an update to the Birdwatch moderation tool, meant to limit the visibility of contributors' identities by creating aliases for their accounts.[5] In March 2022, Twitter expanded access to notes made by the Birdwatch moderators, giving a randomized set of US users the ability to view the notes attached to tweets and rate them.[6][7]
A Community note is a countermessage providing fact check appearing under a tweet.[1] For a Community note to be published, a Community Note user must first propose a note under a tweet.[4] Users then give their opinion on the usefulness and sincerity of the note.[4] The note can be posted once many users with different points of view "who have disagreed in the past" have agreed on whether or not to publish it.[4] A Community note user gets points if their note is validated.[8][4]
Since 2023, Community notes are often attached to shared articles missing context, misleading advertisements or political tweets with false arguments.[3] They also note when an image presented as real is actually AI-generated.[3] Similarly to Wikipedia, a source is attached to the note in most cases so the information can be verified.[4][3] Elon Musk allowed to users to add to Community Notes to adverts, which the Financial Times noted was good for consumers but not for advertisers.[9][8]
The feature does not mention fact checking but indicates "readers added context", as facts are complex and evolving rather than undisputed and established.[8] Wired has noted Community Notes itself is prone to being fooled by disinformation.[10] Le Monde concluded Community notes were useful, but were not a substitute of conventional moderation.[4]
Studies
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including
The Community Notes Observatory: Can Crowdsourced Fact-Checking be Trusted in Practice?
Community Notes vs. Snoping: How the Crowd Selects Fact-Checking Targets on Social Media
The Roll-Out of Community Notes Did Not Reduce Engagement With Misinformation on Twitter
Limiting Factors in the Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourced Labeling for Combating Misinformation
Diffusion of Community Fact-Checked Misinformation on Twitter
When Partisans Fly: Twitter Community Notes and the Political Economy of Social Media Disinformation
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Lyons, Kim (January 25, 2021). "Twitter launches Birdwatch, a fact-checking program intended to fight misinformation". The Verge. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- ^ Biron, Bethany. "Elon Musk said Twitter's Birdwatch feature will be renamed 'Community Notes' and is aimed at 'improving information accuracy' amid growing content-moderation concerns". Business Insider. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Baldacchino, Julien (2023-08-10). "Avec les "notes de communauté", Twitter (X) marche sur les pas... de Wikipédia". France Inter (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-21.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "I spent one week as an 'arbiter of truth' on Twitter's 'Community Notes' service". Le Monde.fr. 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
- ^ Lyons, Kim (November 22, 2021). "Twitter introduces aliases for contributors to its Birdwatch moderation program". The Verge. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- ^ Oremus, Will; Merrill, Jeremy B. (March 2, 2022). "As Ukraine misinformation rages, Twitter's fact-checking tool is a no-show". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
- ^ Perez, Sarah (March 3, 2022). "Twitter to show 'Birdwatch' community fact-checks to more users, following criticism". Tech Crunch. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
- ^ a b c Kelly, Jemima (2023-05-04). "Has Twitter discovered a better way of correcting online falsehoods?". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
- ^ Morrissey, Brian. "Elon Musk: Web 2.0 man". www.therebooting.com. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
- ^ Gilbert, David. "A Graphic Hamas Video Donald Trump Jr. Shared on X Is Actually Real, Research Confirms". Wired. Retrieved 12 October 2023.