X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t resolving the flood of U.S. election falseinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform
ByBARBARA ORTUTAY AP innovation author
October 30, 2024, 8: 21 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t dealingwith the flood of U.S. election falseinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform, according to a report released Wednesday by a group that tracks online speech.
The not-for-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate examined the Community Notes function and discovered that precise notes fixing incorrect and deceptive declares about the U.S. elections were not showed on 209 out of a sample of 283 posts considered deceptive — or 74%.
Misleading posts that did not screen Community Notes even when they were readilyavailable consistedof incorrect declares that the 2020 governmental election was taken and that ballot systems are undependable, CCDH stated.
In the cases where Community Notes were showed, the initial deceptive posts gotten 13 times more views than their accompanying keepsinmind, the group included.
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