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.

Wikipedia contributors. (2025, January 14). Community Notes. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:22, January 23, 2025, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Notes&oldid=1269391621

Interestingly…

Elon Musk, the owner of X, considers the program as a game changer and having considerable potential. After a post by Musk received a Community Note, he claimed the program had been manipulated by state actors. (Wikipedia)

The project code is released. Here’s its public repository: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes.

interesting examples:

Scammers can turn off the comments but they can’t turn off community notes 💀

— Community Notes FTW (@BestOfCNotes), June 1, 2023.

People also really seems to like roasting Elon Musk, check Newsweek’s Elon Musk Hit With More Community Notes Than Russia’s State News Agency.

And, there’s even a leaderboard (https://community-notes-leaderboard.com/). “It shows all the deranged dumb fucks that get community noted the most and to no one surprise it is mostly from prominent right-wing accounts. (reddit)”. Elon Musk ranks #47…