Meta is all set to roll out its first stage for Community Notes which will replace all of the company’s third-party fact-checkers. The news was a highly controversial debate but Meta’s CEO seems confident that the success on X is enough of a reason to employ Community notes on Facebook.
Now, a shocking new report is shedding light on the flaws of Community Notes working on X. This includes discussions about how the majority of these notes are never shared which is alarming. After all, they are designed to curb misinformation (or at least portray the right facts). So if they’re not on display, misinformation will continue to spread like wildfire.
As per the latest analysis that was shared by Bloomberg, most Community Notes never make their way to the app. This is even though they’re so useful and accurate in terms of their findings.
Bloomberg examined over a million English Community Notes spanning two years, revealing the system’s failure to stem politically and financially motivated falsehoods on X. Many of the sources that help verify facts are also under attack from Musk, the Trump administration, and changing political views, making people question their reliability.
As per the analysis, less than 10% of all the Community Notes shared through X’s notes are present on the app. This might be linked to the qualifier that it needs to get consensus from people of various political opinions so it can be displayed.
X shared more on this matter including how the feature assesses various perspectives depending on how people rate notes previously. The offering doesn’t ask about or make use of data other than that. X further elaborates on how it’s all based on the contributor's intuition that likes to rate similar notes that have similar perspectives. Anyone who rates the notes differently has a different perspective obviously.
To make it simple, X says that notes on debatable topics like political misinformation are usually never seen. Therefore, such falsehoods aren’t addressed and neither are they seen or affected by the process of fact-checking by crowd-sourcing.
The results of this study are similar to those from CCDH, which found that 74% of correct proposed notes never got a chance to be displayed on X. This raises concerns about major unrest, distrust, and the spread of misinformation.
Another study on this front shared how 85% of all the notes found on X remain invisible to users on the app. Some feel that these stats prove that community notes on X work in a biased manner and they make use of unnecessary forms of censorship.
Experts claim that we’ll always find a certain degree of errors of malicious actions on Community Notes as the barriers to making contributions are so low, to begin with. So for approval, all you need is an account that has no reporting made against it and has been active for a while.
Clearly, Meta has a lot to think about after such a report has entered the limelight during a time when it’s going live with Community Notes after getting inspiration from X.
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Now, a shocking new report is shedding light on the flaws of Community Notes working on X. This includes discussions about how the majority of these notes are never shared which is alarming. After all, they are designed to curb misinformation (or at least portray the right facts). So if they’re not on display, misinformation will continue to spread like wildfire.
As per the latest analysis that was shared by Bloomberg, most Community Notes never make their way to the app. This is even though they’re so useful and accurate in terms of their findings.
Bloomberg examined over a million English Community Notes spanning two years, revealing the system’s failure to stem politically and financially motivated falsehoods on X. Many of the sources that help verify facts are also under attack from Musk, the Trump administration, and changing political views, making people question their reliability.
As per the analysis, less than 10% of all the Community Notes shared through X’s notes are present on the app. This might be linked to the qualifier that it needs to get consensus from people of various political opinions so it can be displayed.
X shared more on this matter including how the feature assesses various perspectives depending on how people rate notes previously. The offering doesn’t ask about or make use of data other than that. X further elaborates on how it’s all based on the contributor's intuition that likes to rate similar notes that have similar perspectives. Anyone who rates the notes differently has a different perspective obviously.
To make it simple, X says that notes on debatable topics like political misinformation are usually never seen. Therefore, such falsehoods aren’t addressed and neither are they seen or affected by the process of fact-checking by crowd-sourcing.
The results of this study are similar to those from CCDH, which found that 74% of correct proposed notes never got a chance to be displayed on X. This raises concerns about major unrest, distrust, and the spread of misinformation.
Another study on this front shared how 85% of all the notes found on X remain invisible to users on the app. Some feel that these stats prove that community notes on X work in a biased manner and they make use of unnecessary forms of censorship.
Experts claim that we’ll always find a certain degree of errors of malicious actions on Community Notes as the barriers to making contributions are so low, to begin with. So for approval, all you need is an account that has no reporting made against it and has been active for a while.
Clearly, Meta has a lot to think about after such a report has entered the limelight during a time when it’s going live with Community Notes after getting inspiration from X.
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