Twitter’s Community Notes Is Ushering In The Death Of Pseudo “Fact Checkers”
Say goodbye to pseudo “fact checkers” and say hello to Community Notes – high-quality information added to tweets missing important context that provide trustworthy sources and are rated by fellow users on their helpfulness.
Twitter Community Notes has been a glorious social invention in response to both misleading news as well as misleading “fact checkers.” You can think of Community Notes as crowd-sourced sticky notes added to tweets that users believed needed more context. How is this different from so-called fact checkers? In all the important ways, actually. You’ve probably come across a political article on Facebook or tried to share something about Covid-19 anywhere online and instantly been hit with the obligatory “fact check,” which can come from a biased organization, publication, or government agency (like the CDC).