Elon Musk Praises Improved ‘Community Notes’ as Community Flags His Fake News Post

Twitter updated its Community Notes characteristic ( formerlyknown as Birdwatch ) on Friday , according toa band of postsfrom a companionship Twitter score . With the update , Community Notes are now , once again , open to “ marking , ” in which web site users can vote on whether or not a note is utile . Additionally , an algorithm change will purportedly assure “ more depressed timber distinction get identify , ” and qualify users who ofttimes conduce “ low timbre ” notes , tweeted the company .

So in sum-up : there is now a crowd - source verification tool for Twitter ’s gang - source verification tool . The site ’s VP of Product , Keith Coleman , follow up to clarifyin his own post that land site user would be responsible for determining a note ’s timber , not Twitter itself .

It seems likely the algorithm variety announcement is part of a play to demonstrate the platform ’s moderation ability and trustiness , amidweeks of chaosbrought on by Elon Musk ’s accomplishment . Since the billionaire bought the ship’s company and hollow out its workforce , many advertizer have pausedtheir outlay on the platform — take hold out for denotation ’s of the site ’s direction .

Community Notes are meant to be a crowd-sourced means of moderation, but Twitter is still facing big questions about site moderation going forward.

Community Notes are meant to be a crowd-sourced means of moderation, but Twitter is still facing big questions about site moderation going forward.Image:Tero Vesalainen(Shutterstock)

In an apparent attempt to illustrate the alleged value of the updated Community Notes feature , Musk himself charter to the land site to place some fake news . The social media CEO posted a doctored newspaper headline attributed to CNN , and then replied“@CommunityNotes FTW ! ” when a biotic community note appear on his post indicating the screencap was n’t veridical .

Since Musk officially started his reign at Twitter at the final stage of October , the platform ’s moderation has been a key business organization . Right away , the site ’s former cognitive content moderation team wasunable to do their caper , and then many of thosejobs were scrappedin mass layoffs . Though Musk might see moderation as rejoinder to “ exemption , ” it ’s likely central to keeping the social media site usable , attractive to its core user - ship , and profitable . Plus , even when it had a full content moderation staff , the political program stillstruggled to manage abuseandpolitical disinformation .

Twitter initially launch Community Notes / Birdwatch to combat such difficulties — not inevitably to in full substitute other aspects of the site ’s moderation . Yet , currently , it ’s unclear how well other layers of Twitter ’s easing are working . The sitefailed to pin and removevideos of the Christchurch mosque shooting on Sunday , indicating big gap in current processes .

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