Twitter is now rolling out Wikipedia-like Community Notes worldwide
Twitter wants to give context to potentially misleading tweets through Community Notes. Now launching globally, the feature allows people to add context to tweets that may contain fake news or a twisted truth. You can leave a comment on a tweet and if enough people like the comment, it will be made public with the tweet.
Community Notes on Twitter
Twitter writes: “People around the world can now view and rate notes, which helps create helpful notes for people with differing opinions. You can view notes that are currently rated as helpful and featured on Twitter here to see. If you don’t see it yet, don’t worry, it’s rolling out.”
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The Community Notes are not about what Twitter employees think: it makes it very clear that these Notes do not represent Twitter’s point of view. Twitter said: “A tweet containing a Community Note will not be tagged, removed, or addressed by Twitter unless found to violate the Twitter Rules, Terms of Service, or our Privacy Policy. Failure to comply may result in removal of access to Community Notes and/or other action.” If any notes are out of line, you can flag them just like you would with a regular tweet.
Anyone can report notes that they believe don’t follow these rules by selecting the menu on a note and then choosing Report. However, not everyone can contribute to the Community Notes. Everyone can see them, but only Americans can actually influence them. That’s a shame and we hope that comes to the rest of the world soon. Twitter does say it plans to make it possible for more people around the world soon.
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The Community Notes are reminiscent of Wikipedia. The people who eventually post the Notes with the tweets have first been approved by Twitter. However, ultimately the public determines whether the Note is valuable, making it a very common driven goal. For example, if someone tweets ‘The corona vaccine is unsafe’, people can vote this comment up and down, so to speak. The question is therefore whether those Notes will work well: if you have a very fanatical group who agree with this and vote it up, then people who disagree may get snowed under. Whether a statement is factually correct or not, therefore, does not seem to be entirely leading.
On the other hand, Twitter is experimenting a lot, so it may just be that this feature is only temporary.
What do you think of the idea of Community Notes? Leave it in the comments to this article.
