Elon Musk desires to ‘repair’ Group Notes on X

Elon Musk has an issue with Group Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking function that began as Birdwatch, and launched at scale after he bought Twitter.

“Sadly @CommunityNotes is more and more being gamed by governments & legacy media,” Musk posted. “Working to repair this…” Based mostly on the rant his tweet descends in to afterwards, his situation seems to be with how X’s Group Notes contributors have been treating misinformation about President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the battle in Ukraine. Musk quotes a put up from an X account that claims polls displaying Zelenskyy has a 57 % approval ranking in Ukraine are “not credible.” Data like that being challenged on X would not jive with President Trump’s description of Zelenskyy as a “dictator” or Musk’s need to make use of the platform as an unofficial arm of the present administration.

What “fixing” Group Notes will appear to be stays to be seen, however Musk uncritically quoting a put up that cites no sources past a picture with small textual content that claims “Accuracy Confidence: Regular” is hopefully proof sufficient that Group Notes are the naked minimal wanted. Ragging on the function in fact suits the bigger sample of Musk’s tenure at X, which has been characterised by him manipulating the platform’s algorithm and eliminating options that helped decide credibility, like verification. If he thinks you may’t even belief crowdsourced fact-checks, there’s actually no supply of reality left on the platform.

The idea of Group Notes is not distinctive to X — Meta lately opened up the waitlist to make use of the function on its platforms — however how lengthy Group Notes exists its present kind is outwardly now an open query.