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Community Notes Can’t Save Social Media From Itself

bloomberg.com/opinion/features

#DataJournalism on the X/Twitter #CommunityNotes data suggests
- CN are getting faster, but are still slow (median is +14 hours after original post)
- A smaller % of notes are being published (personally, not sure that is bad if overall submission number is up)
- the content for notes overwhelming comes from traditional media, wikipedia and fact-checkers

Bloomberg: Community Notes Can’t Save Social Media From Itself. “Eliminating the rewards for promoting misinformation would go much further than crowdsourcing to clean up social media. But in a social media world of growing incentives to make money in the viral casino, Community Notes is ultimately fighting a losing battle. This column seeks to fully examine how the people behind it are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/bloomberg-community-notes-cant-save-social-media-from-itself/

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