{"id":88794,"date":"2023-08-02T23:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T23:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/02\/x-formerly-twitter-streamlines-its-crowdsourced-fact-checking-system-community-notes\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T23:26:23","slug":"x-formerly-twitter-streamlines-its-crowdsourced-fact-checking-system-community-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/02\/x-formerly-twitter-streamlines-its-crowdsourced-fact-checking-system-community-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"X, formerly Twitter, streamlines its crowdsourced fact-checking system Community Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Elon Musk-owned X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is streamlining its crowdsourced fact-checking feature Community Notes. The feature historically has provided information to users about why they were seeing a fact check appended to a tweet, <em>er<\/em>, post. Now, after three years of development, the company says this extra context will be removed for those who are already experienced with Community Notes.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnantonio\/status\/1686768820525101056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> by X employee Lucas Neumann, he explains that Community Notes will evolve alongside people\u2019s usage. As users become familiar with the feature, the company will remove the detailed explanations about how Notes work \u2014 though these will continue to appear for audiences new to Community Notes, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first introduced @CommunityNotes, it was a very unfamiliar concept to most users. Understandably, people were naturally skeptical and had many questions when they encountered a note,\u201d writes Neumann. \u201cOur research consistently found that versions with more text, rather than less, helped people perceive notes as friendly, helpful, fair and trustworthy. It also helped them understand that these came from the community instead of company employees. My minimalist designer soul resisted these findings initially, but our research was solid, so we leaned on the side of text abundance,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, after 3 years, as @CommunityNotes matures as a first-class feature and earns more people\u2019s trust, we can finally start streamlining and refining it. We\u2019re taking a \u2018progressive onboarding\u2019 approach: detailed explanations will continue to appear for audiences new to Community Notes, and where space permits, while streamlined versions will start showing to those with more experience,\u201d Neumann says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout embed-oembed embed--twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When we first introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CommunityNotes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CommunityNotes<\/a>, it was a very unfamiliar concept to most users. Understandably, people were naturally skeptical and had many questions when they encountered a note.<\/p>\n<p>Our research consistently found that versions with more text, rather than less, helped\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7IxJ42vZbE\">pic.twitter.com\/7IxJ42vZbE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lucas Neumann (@lucasnantonio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnantonio\/status\/1686768820525101056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The change is small and subtle, but one that speaks to the growing understanding among X\u2019s user base of how the crowdsourced fact-checking process works. Launched to Twitter\u2019s global users in December 2022 after earlier tests, the feature previously known as Birdwatch has been refined over the years so the \u201cwisdom of the crowds,\u201d so to speak, couldn\u2019t be easily gamed by someone or a group of people wanting to spread misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The system is not as simple as having a post or fact check upvoted or downvoted for accuracy. If that were the case, brigades of like-minded contributors could team up to promote their own viewpoints. Instead, Community Notes uses a \u201cbridging\u201d algorithm that attempts to find consensus among people who don\u2019t usually share the same views. Not everyone can immediately become a contributor to Community Notes, either. They first have to prove they\u2019re capable of writing helpful \u201cnotes\u201d by correctly assessing other notes as either Helpful or Not Helpful, which earns them points. Once reaching contributor status, users must then continue to add quality contributions or they will have their contributor status removed.<\/p>\n<p>The Community Notes also <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/using-twitter\/community-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can\u2019t be edited or modified<\/a> by X\u2019s team members and don\u2019t represent the company\u2019s official viewpoint, the company explains on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, in particular, felt strongly about Community Notes, after having been highly critical of Twitter\u2019s former content moderation efforts before he took ownership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity Notes is a gamechanger for improving accuracy on Twitter!,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1590773586616545280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted <\/a>last year.<\/p>\n<p>While originally designed to provide additional context for tweets that didn\u2019t technically violate Twitter\u2019s rules, but could be misleading or lacking critical context, Community Notes play a larger role on the new X as the company\u2019s employee headcount, including in trust and safety and moderation, has declined through layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Though other areas of the old Twitter have been cut or revamped \u2014 from subscriptions to newsletters to the status of third-party clients\u00a0\u2014 Community Notes appear to be the focus of continued development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-owned X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is streamlining its crowdsourced fact-checking feature Community Notes. 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