Report says crowd-sourced fact checks on X fail to address flood of US election misinformation

X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing nan flood of U.S. predetermination misinformation connected Elon Musk’s societal media platform

SAN FRANCISCO -- X's crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn't addressing nan flood of U.S. predetermination misinformation connected Elon Musk's societal media platform, according to a study published Wednesday by a group that tracks online speech.

The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed nan Community Notes characteristic and recovered that meticulous notes correcting mendacious and misleading claims astir nan U.S. elections were not displayed connected 209 retired of a sample of 283 posts deemed misleading — aliases 74%.

Misleading posts that did not show Community Notes moreover erstwhile they were disposable included mendacious claims that nan 2020 statesmanlike predetermination was stolen and that voting systems are unreliable, CCDH said.

In nan cases wherever Community Notes were displayed, nan original misleading posts received 13 times much views than their accompanying notes, nan group added.

Community Notes lets X users constitute truth checks connected posts aft nan users are accepted arsenic contributors to nan program. The checks are past rated by different users based connected their accuracy, sources, really easy they are to understand, and whether they usage neutral language. The programme was launched successful 2021 by nan erstwhile activity of nan tract — past known arsenic Twitter — and was called Birdwatch. Musk renamed it Community Notes aft he took complete nan tract successful 2022.

Last year, X sued CCDH, blaming nan group for nan nonaccomplishment of “tens of millions of dollars” successful advertizing gross aft it documented an summation successful dislike reside connected nan site. The suit was dismissed by a national judge successful March.

Keith Coleman, a vice president of merchandise astatine X who oversees Community Notes, said successful a connection that nan programme "maintains a precocious barroom to make notes effective and support spot crossed perspectives, and thousands of predetermination and authorities related notes person cleared that barroom successful 2024. In nan past period alone, hundreds of specified notes person been shown connected thousands of posts and person been seen tens of millions of times. It is because of their value that notes are truthful effective.”

San Francisco-based X besides pointed to external world research that has shown Community Notes to beryllium trustworthy and effective.

Imran Ahmed, nan CEO of CCDH, however, said nan group's investigation "suggests that X’s Community Notes are small much than a Band Aid connected a torrent of dislike and disinformation that undermines our populist and further polarizes our communities."