X Implements New Measures to Detect Manipulation of Community Notes

Meta’s Community Notes program is promising, but needs to prioritize transparency

Meta has changed its approach to fact-checking, moving away from platform-controlled moderation. (Shutterstock) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has more than 3.35 billion combined monthly active users. Recently, Meta has changed its approach to fact-checking in response to criticisms of its role in circulating fake news and disinformation. The company frames its Community Notes program as a way to uphold free expres…

X Implements New Measures to Detect Manipulation of Community Notes

X has added a new method to detect coordinated notes activity.

X uses ‘robustness update’ to improve its flawed Community Notes system

Under a great deal of political pressure to do so, many social media platforms have opted to move away from using fact checking services. X and Facebook are among those to have adopted a “community notes” system that relies on crowd sourcing rather than third party companies. Such systems have faced criticism because of the potential for manipulation, but these risks have been downplayed by social media firms. But now X has decided to take steps…