Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is facing criticism over its crowd-sourced fact-checking feature, Community Notes. The fact-checker is reportedly underperforming and is "failing to counter false" information related to the upcoming US elections.



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X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform

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The crowd-sourced fact-checking feature of Elon Musk's X, Community Notes, is not countering false claims about the U.S. election, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said in a report on Wednesday.

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X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform, according to a report published Wednesday by a group that tracks online speech.

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The crowd-sourced fact-checking feature of Elon Musk's X, Community Notes, is "failing to counter false" claims about the US election.

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Elon Musk’s misinformation megaphone has created a “huge problem” for election officials in key battleground states who told CNN they’re struggling to combat the wave of falsehoods coming from the tech billionaire and spreading wildly on his X platform.

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By Sean Lyngaas, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s misinformation megaphone has created a “huge problem” for election officials in key battleground states who told CNN they’re struggling to combat the wave of falsehoods coming from the tech billionaire and spreading wildly on his X platform. Election officials in pivotal battleground

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AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — X’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn’t addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk’s social media platform. That’s according to a report published Wednesday by a group that tracks online hate speech. The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate analyzed the Community Notes feature and found that accurate notes that corrected false and misleading c…

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Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is facing criticism over its crowd-sourced fact-checking feature, Community Notes. The fact-checker is reportedly underperforming and is "failing to counter false" information related to the upcoming US elections.

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