Elon Musk has an issue with Neighborhood Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking function that began as Birdwatch, and launched at scale after he bought Twitter.
"Sadly @CommunityNotes is more and more being gamed by governments & legacy media," Musk posted. "Working to repair this…" Primarily based on the rant his tweet descends in to afterwards, his challenge seems to be with how X's Neighborhood Notes contributors have been treating misinformation about President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the battle in Ukraine. Musk quotes a put up from an X account that claims polls displaying Zelenskyy has a 57 % approval ranking in Ukraine are "not credible." Info like that being challenged on X doesn't jive with President Trump's description of Zelenskyy as a "dictator" or Musk's want to make use of the platform as an unofficial arm of the present administration.
Sadly, @CommunityNotes is more and more being gamed by governments & legacy media.
Working to repair this …
It ought to be totally apparent {that a} Zelensky-controlled ballot about his OWN approval isn’t credible!!
If Zelensky was truly cherished by the individuals of Ukraine, he… https://t.co/gy0NjtPwiq— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2025
What "fixing" Neighborhood Notes will appear to be stays to be seen, however Musk uncritically quoting a put up that cites no sources past a picture with small textual content that claims "Accuracy Confidence: Regular" is hopefully proof sufficient that Neighborhood Notes are the naked minimal wanted. Ragging on the function in fact suits the bigger sample of Musk's tenure at X, which has been characterised by him manipulating the platform's algorithm and eliminating options that helped decide credibility, like verification. If he thinks you possibly can't even belief crowdsourced fact-checks, there's actually no supply of fact left on the platform.
The idea of Neighborhood Notes is not distinctive to X — Meta just lately opened up the waitlist to make use of the function on its platforms — however how lengthy Neighborhood Notes exists its present type is outwardly now an open query.
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