NBC News embarrassed itself on Tuesday after it falsely claimed that it had “gained access” to the systems of X, formerly Twitter, as part of an effort to expose the efficacy of the platform’s Community Notes function. The feature is essentially the X community’s form of “fact-checking” claims on various posts.
“Elon Musk has touted Community Notes as a way to fight false and misleading information on X,” the outlet wrote on X. “@NBCNews gained access to the system, and found that on posts containing known misinformation, few posts were ever corrected. Many fact-checks were delayed.”
Soon thereafter, NBC’s post was tagged with its own Community Note.
“NBC did not ‘gain access’ to any special Twitter system they merely had one of the many thousands of community notes contributors show them that some misleading posts had yet to have any notes added,” the note clarified. “Any 6 month old account with a […]
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