Twitter’s ‘Community Notes’ — a system which allows “fact checks” to be added beneath some tweets — are being weaponized in the run-up to the Republican presidential primary, with some users even having opinions fact-checked under the guise of adding ‘context.’
The outgoing CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk , initially introduced Community Notes “to create a better informed world by empowering people on Twitter to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading Tweets.”
The function has quickly begun to operate as a means of fact-checking posts that partisan readers disapprove of, whether inaccurate or not. One such example involves the “Trump War Room” account’s assertion that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis kept businesses closed until September 2020.
Notably, DeSantis lifted COVID restrictions on business, including bars and restaurants, in September 2020, as reported by Reuters at the time, yet Community Notes was quick to “add context,” which, in turn, implied the claim was false.Another […]
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