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  1. "On Thursday, Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant’s moderation practices, ruled that “Community Notes” are not a proper substitute for its fact-checking program.

    In a new “policy advisory opinion,” the Board expressed concerns about how effective Community Notes would be in a litany of circumstances, “including in repressive human rights regimes, in particular electoral contexts and in ongoing crisis and conflict situations.” Overall, the Board warned that expanding Community Notes outside the U.S. could “pose significant human rights risks and contribute to tangible harms that Meta has a responsibility to avoid or remedy.”

    In January 2025, Meta announced it was getting rid of its fact-checking program in the U.S. Launched a decade ago, the program relied on a network of third-party fact-checkers to verify content and flag disinformation. These partnerships with news and civil society organizations have been essential to the platform’s moderation practices on Meta, Instagram, and Threads."

    niemanlab.org/2026/03/metas-ov

    #SocialMedia #Meta #CommunityNotes #FactChecking #ContentModeration

  2. "On Thursday, Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant’s moderation practices, ruled that “Community Notes” are not a proper substitute for its fact-checking program.

    In a new “policy advisory opinion,” the Board expressed concerns about how effective Community Notes would be in a litany of circumstances, “including in repressive human rights regimes, in particular electoral contexts and in ongoing crisis and conflict situations.” Overall, the Board warned that expanding Community Notes outside the U.S. could “pose significant human rights risks and contribute to tangible harms that Meta has a responsibility to avoid or remedy.”

    In January 2025, Meta announced it was getting rid of its fact-checking program in the U.S. Launched a decade ago, the program relied on a network of third-party fact-checkers to verify content and flag disinformation. These partnerships with news and civil society organizations have been essential to the platform’s moderation practices on Meta, Instagram, and Threads."

    niemanlab.org/2026/03/metas-ov

    #SocialMedia #Meta #CommunityNotes #FactChecking #ContentModeration

  3. 📝 Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. 📝

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pm3xagefn75sktrgv3u5h7mb/post/3megtatccdc25

  4. 📝 Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. 📝

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pm3xagefn75sktrgv3u5h7mb/post/3megtatccdc25

  5. Meta's expanding Community Notes globally, but they're *only* asking the Oversight Board for advice on which countries to *omit*.

    Not, you know, whether crowd-sourced fact-checking is actually working (only 6% of notes published in the US so far). Seems their priorities are... unique. What could possibly go wrong?
    #Meta #CommunityNotes #FactChecking #SocialMedia #TechNews
    engadget.com/social-media/meta

  6. New newsletter! Understanding participation in the X Community Notes system, via my love of data visualisation and stronger causal inference methods!

    #DataViz #CausalInference #FactChecking #CommunityNotes

    open.substack.com/pub/tomstaff

  7. New newsletter! Understanding participation in the X Community Notes system, via my love of data visualisation and stronger causal inference methods!

    #DataViz #CausalInference #FactChecking #CommunityNotes

    open.substack.com/pub/tomstaff

  8. If your community is thinking about Community Notes, we have some notes to guide your Community Notes thinking right here. #CommunityNotes

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pm3xagefn75sktrgv3u5h7mb/post/3lzgx2qfhhk2q

  9. University of Washington: Community Notes help reduce the virality of false information on X, study finds. “A University of Washington-led study of X found that posts with Community Notes attached were less prone to going viral and got less engagement. After getting a Community Note, on average, reposts dropped 46% and likes dropped 44%. “

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/21/university-of-washington-community-notes-help-reduce-the-virality-of-false-information-on-x-study-finds/

  10. Meta's opening up Community Notes to *everyone* for rating & requesting, plus notifications if posts you've engaged with get a note. Is this genuinely helpful for battling misinformation, or just more digital noise? 🤔 #Meta #CommunityNotes #SocialMedia #ContentModeration #TechNews
    engadget.com/social-media/meta

  11. Meta's boosting its Community Notes, now alerting users about corrected posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. You can even request or rate notes. Because who needs 'truth' when you have a 'community consensus,' right? What's your trust level in crowd-sourced fact-checks? #Meta #CommunityNotes #FactChecking #SocialMedia #TechNews
    techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/meta

  12. "Over four months, I’ve drafted 65 notes debunking conspiracy theories on topics ranging from airplane crashes to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. I’ve tried to flag fake artificial intelligence-generated video clips, viral hoax security threats and false reports about an ICE partnership with DoorDash.

    Only three of them got published, all related to July’s Texas floods. That’s an overall success rate of less than 5 percent. My proposed notes were on topics other news outlets — including Snopes, NewsGuard and Bloomberg News — had decided were worth publishing their own fact checks about.

    Zuckerberg fired professional fact-checkers, leaving users to fight falsehoods with community notes. As the main line of defense against hoaxes and deliberate liars exploiting our attention, community notes appear — so far — nowhere near up to the task.

    Feeds filled with inaccurate information matter for the 54 percent of American adults who, according to Pew Research Center, get news from social media."

    washingtonpost.com/technology/

    #SocialMedia #FactChecking #Facebook #Meta #CommunityNotes #Disinformation #Instagram

  13. "Over four months, I’ve drafted 65 notes debunking conspiracy theories on topics ranging from airplane crashes to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. I’ve tried to flag fake artificial intelligence-generated video clips, viral hoax security threats and false reports about an ICE partnership with DoorDash.

    Only three of them got published, all related to July’s Texas floods. That’s an overall success rate of less than 5 percent. My proposed notes were on topics other news outlets — including Snopes, NewsGuard and Bloomberg News — had decided were worth publishing their own fact checks about.

    Zuckerberg fired professional fact-checkers, leaving users to fight falsehoods with community notes. As the main line of defense against hoaxes and deliberate liars exploiting our attention, community notes appear — so far — nowhere near up to the task.

    Feeds filled with inaccurate information matter for the 54 percent of American adults who, according to Pew Research Center, get news from social media."

    washingtonpost.com/technology/

    #SocialMedia #FactChecking #Facebook #Meta #CommunityNotes #Disinformation #Instagram

  14. TikTok introduce Footnotes negli USA: il fact-checking collaborativo ispirato alle Community Notes di X e Meta.

    ✨ Affidarsi al buon senso degli utenti per verificare le informazioni.
    💡 Algoritmo "ponte" per trovare consenso anche tra opinioni diverse.
    🛡️ Protezione contro la manipolazione dei voti.

    #TikTok #FactChecking #CommunityNotes

  15. TikTok introduce Footnotes negli USA: il fact-checking collaborativo ispirato alle Community Notes di X e Meta.

    ✨ Affidarsi al buon senso degli utenti per verificare le informazioni.
    💡 Algoritmo "ponte" per trovare consenso anche tra opinioni diverse.
    🛡️ Protezione contro la manipolazione dei voti.

    #TikTok #FactChecking #CommunityNotes

  16. TechCrunch: X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes. “On Thursday, the Community Notes X account announced the launch of a pilot test where select contributors would be able to rate posts by answering questions about why they either like or don’t like that particular post.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/techcrunch-x-to-test-using-community-notes-to-find-the-posts-everyone-likes/

  17. Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas: A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025. “Though Community Notes has become a flagship model for decentralized content moderation, the approach itself is hotly debated. Supporters call community-driven content moderation a democratic alternative to opaque, top-down […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-an-analysis-of-english-and-spanish-contributions-between-2021-and-2025-digital-democracy-institute-of-the-americas/

  18. The #DigitalDemocracyInstitute of the Americas analysed #XTwitter’s #CommunityNotes public dataset, focusing on English and Spanish contributions between 2021 and 2025. The analysis highlights the system’s limitations, including the lack of crucial metadata and a 14-day lag in publishing notes, which hinders its effectiveness in combating online misinformation. ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-x #tech #media #news

  19. The #DigitalDemocracyInstitute of the Americas analysed #XTwitter’s #CommunityNotes public dataset, focusing on English and Spanish contributions between 2021 and 2025. The analysis highlights the system’s limitations, including the lack of crucial metadata and a 14-day lag in publishing notes, which hinders its effectiveness in combating online misinformation. ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-x #tech #media #news

  20. A deep dive into #X #CommunityNotes contributions in English and Spanish (2021-2025) organized by #DDIA, the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas. Less than 10% of submitted community notes are published.

    ddia.org/en/new-report-briefin

  21. A deep dive into #X #CommunityNotes contributions in English and Spanish (2021-2025) organized by #DDIA, the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas. Less than 10% of submitted community notes are published.

    ddia.org/en/new-report-briefin

  22. Meer dan 90 % van de door gebruikers voorgestelde #CommunityNotes op #X wordt nooit gepubliceerd. Dat zegt een studie van ngo #DDIA (Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas). Dit cijfer werpt twijfel op over de doelstelling van deze methode om #desinformatie op het internet te bestrijden.

    vrtnws.be/p.BlJjoWX7Y

  23. Meer dan 90 % van de door gebruikers voorgestelde #CommunityNotes op #X wordt nooit gepubliceerd. Dat zegt een studie van ngo #DDIA (Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas). Dit cijfer werpt twijfel op over de doelstelling van deze methode om #desinformatie op het internet te bestrijden.

    vrtnws.be/p.BlJjoWX7Y

  24. Community Notes submissions on X dropped from 120,000 in January to under 60,000 in May, while Elon Musk has largely stopped referencing the feature. #CommunityNotes #TwitterX #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #FactChecking #TechNews #UserEngagement #PlatformTrends

  25. Community Notes submissions on X dropped from 120,000 in January to under 60,000 in May, while Elon Musk has largely stopped referencing the feature. #CommunityNotes #TwitterX #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #FactChecking #TechNews #UserEngagement #PlatformTrends

  26. X is testing a feature using Community Notes to spotlight posts where users with diverse viewpoints reach consensus. Aiming to boost transparency and trust in online discussions. #SocialMedia #CommunityNotes #TechInnovation #OnlineTrust #XPlatform #DigitalDialogue #FactChecking

  27. X is testing a feature using Community Notes to spotlight posts where users with diverse viewpoints reach consensus. Aiming to boost transparency and trust in online discussions. #SocialMedia #CommunityNotes #TechInnovation #OnlineTrust #XPlatform #DigitalDialogue #FactChecking

  28. The top Community Notes contributor is...an antivirus startup?

    indicator.media/p/the-top-comm (£)

    Curious tale about the #CommunityNotes #FactChecking system on X/Twitter, which arose out of some analysis Alexios, Zara and myself are doing on CN. It seems like one antivirus company got so frustrated with the lack of response from the X about scam posts that they decided to pump their notifications through as CNs so people could be alerted about harmful content that way

  29. The top Community Notes contributor is...an antivirus startup?

    indicator.media/p/the-top-comm (£)

    Curious tale about the #CommunityNotes #FactChecking system on X/Twitter, which arose out of some analysis Alexios, Zara and myself are doing on CN. It seems like one antivirus company got so frustrated with the lack of response from the X about scam posts that they decided to pump their notifications through as CNs so people could be alerted about harmful content that way

  30. Community Notes Can’t Save Social Media From Itself

    bloomberg.com/opinion/features

    #DataJournalism on the X/Twitter #CommunityNotes data suggests
    - CN are getting faster, but are still slow (median is +14 hours after original post)
    - A smaller % of notes are being published (personally, not sure that is bad if overall submission number is up)
    - the content for notes overwhelming comes from traditional media, wikipedia and fact-checkers