The fact checks are now able to be displayed less than twenty minutes after a post has been published, according to the business.
X is working to improve the pace of its Community Notes system, which is a crowdsourced fact-checking platform. The company has provided an update in which it states that it has “re-architected” the scoring system that is responsible for the feature. As a result, the user-generated notes can now be displayed on the platform less than twenty minutes after a post has been made.
Community Notes, which was first presented in 2022, is dependent on other users of X to verify the accuracy of posts on the platform or to provide any context that is lacking. It is mandatory for contributors to provide citations for their sources, and subsequent users are tasked with rating the “helpfulness” of the note. In addition, creators are penalized for postings that become “community noted” in an effort to dissuade them from attempting to make money or profit from spreading false material. At this point, the entire procedure ought to be able to go a great deal more quickly.
These newly created “lightning notes” are able to “go live in as little as 14 minutes and 33 seconds after being written, and 18 minutes and 20 seconds after the post itself was written,” per X. One of the criticisms that has been leveled at the crowdsourced fact checking system for a long time is that it moves much too slowly in comparison to the speed at which viral misinformation spreads on the network. The adjustment could help address this problem. As an illustration, a study conducted by Bloomberg in the previous year discovered that it could take several hours for a Community Note to emerge on a tweet that has gone viral, and that, in most cases, only a small percentage of viewers receive the fact check in comparison to the posting that was initially published.
Uncertainty exists regarding the frequency with which the faster “lightning” version of the operation will really be carried out, although the new method that is faster could potentially change that. Not all posts that contain inaccurate information, facts that are misstated, or imagery that was generated by artificial intelligence are instantly flagged for review, if they are flagged at all. Even while X claims that it has more than 800,000 contributors to the program all around the world, it is quite likely that certain posts will still take a significantly longer amount of time to make their way through the Community Notes procedure.