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Everything about Community Notes

Fact-checking feature on X

Community Notes is a feature on X where contributors can add context such as fact-checks under a post, image or video. It is a community-driven content moderation program, intended to provide helpful and informative context, based on a crowd-sourced system. Notes are applied to potentially misleading content by a bridging-based algorithm not based on majority rule, but instead agreement from users on different sides of the political spectrum. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Community NotesA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Did the Roll-Out of Community Notes Reduce Engagement With Misinformation on X/Twitter?Influential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Ideology and modern cultureThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Community notes increase trust in fact-checking on social mediaCited 70 times
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📖 Definitions

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Operation
  3. Application
  4. Analysis
  5. Studies

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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