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Participation is plummeting in the community-driven feature that X owner Elon Musk touted as the solution to the social media site’s misinformation problems. Submissions to X’s Community Notes, which ...

TikTok is the latest social media platform to launch a crowdsourced fact-checking feature. The short-form video app is rolling out the feature, called Footnotes, first in the United States. It lets ...

Meta plans to test out X’s algorithm for Community Notes to crowdsource fact-checks that will appear across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. In a blog, Meta said the testing in the US would begin ...

The billionaire leaders of social media giants have long been under pressure to quell the spread of mis- and disinformation. No system to date, from human fact-checkers to automation, has satisfied ...

Earlier this year, with a TikTok ban looming, Perplexity AI threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring to take over the embattled social media company. Now, the maker of the AI search engine is ...

X announced this week that artificial intelligence bots will be allowed to contribute to Community Notes, its feature that fact-checks posts. But on Thursday, Elon Musk’s platform made it clear: while ...

Washington Post columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler argued that Meta's community notes fact-checking system for posts made on Facebook, Instagram and Threads is "nowhere near up to the task" of keeping ...

Elon Musk’s X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out “community notes,” which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or ...

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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, Axios reported that X is testing a new program to reduce polarization on the platform by spotlighting posts that are ...

The member-driven functionality that aims to curb misleading posts on X has seen the number of context-adding notes created and displayed this year fall. In this 2023 photo, workers install lighting ...