X goals to fight rampant misinformation on the platform with new characteristic

For those who’re like me and spend quite a lot of time scrolling X (previously Twitter), you may possible come throughout quite a lot of posts which were hit with a Group Be aware. The difficulty with Group Notes is that generally a put up with false data in it may be up for hours, with tens of millions of individuals seeing it, earlier than a Group Be aware can get added to it.

To deal with this, X has introduced Lightning Notes, which is able to add Group Notes to posts quicker than ever earlier than. In a put up on X, the Group Notes account mentioned the next:

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Group Notes had been first launched on X in 2022. The system depends on customers to fact-check or add context to posts on its social media platform, which sees lots of of tens of millions of energetic customers day by day posting and viewing posts. When a consumer contributes to a Group Be aware, they’re required to quote any sources they received their data from. Then different customers fee the helpfulness of the word, and if its sourced correctly and proper, it will get added to the put up. Creators who get their posts hit with a Group Be aware do not obtain any income from it.

X says that posts hit with Group Notes scale back the sharing of a put up by roughly 60 %, and will increase the deletion of posts by roughly 80 %.

As somebody who browses X day by day, I’ve seen the worth of Group Notes and suppose it is a useful system for probably the most half. Hopefully, this new Lightning Notes program will assist it, whereas nonetheless guaranteeing the notes are correct and sourced correctly, however solely time will inform.

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