Twitter’s community note is a way to create a well-informed audience expressing their point of view by collaboratively adding text to a misleading tweet. If anyone’s note receives enough ratings as helpful then the note will be publicly visible as a ‘Community Note’ and would be appeared on the tweet.
This is a crowdsourced fact-checking feature introduced in order to reduce the rapid spread of misinformation over the past years.
As a new update, Elon Musk’s Twitter has announced that “Starting today, you’ll get a heads up if a Community Note starts showing on a Tweet you’ve replied to, Liked or Retweeted. This helps give people extra context that they might otherwise miss.” Now, every note that becomes a community note with which we have previously interacted, will be notified to us.
However, these notifications are sent after the note is visible for 24 hours, which has proven to be helpful, and put down within a week’s time. A note has the maximum impact when it’s rated rapidly. Therefore, to ensure that the contributors catch up and don’t miss out, Twitter sends push notifications as alert messages every so often requesting help.
The number of times a contributor wishes to receive these notifications can be changed in the settings panel. The frequency can be decided by the contributors themselves.
Elon Musk tweeted’ “Community Notes is a game changer for combating wrong information.” His motive to introduce ‘Community Notes’ has been to combat misinformation on this widely used platform.
