Birdwatch as 'Community Notes' on Twitter
Following the blog about Birdwatch’s mechanism design, here’s some latest news about it: Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, is a feature on X (formerly Twitter) where contributors can add context such as fact-checks under a post, image or video. It is a community-driven content moderation program, intended to provide helpful and informative context, based on a crowd-sourced system. Notes are applied to potentially misleading content by a bridging algorithm not based on majority rule, but instead agreement from users on different sides of the political spectrum....