New study shows X's fact-checking system fails to catch election posts
Research shows Xʼs Community Notes missing 74% of misleading election-related content. Study reveals over 2 billion views on posts without proper fact-checking notes
A fresh research by Center for Countering Digital Hate points to major gaps in Xʼs crowd-based fact checking system. The study checked 283 posts with wrong election info but found that most posts dont get proper corrections: about three-fourths of misleading content stays un-checked (which got over 2.2 billion views)
Elon Musk – who picked Donald Trump as his choice for president back in summer – has been active on campaign events. The tech-savvy billionaire made some questionable statements about non-citizens voting rights; these claims were already proven wrong. The election coming up on Nov 5th has become a close match between Trump and Kamala Harris
Xʼs Community Notes feature – launched about a year ago – lets regular users add fact-checking comments to posts they think are wrong. This crowd-sourced approach replaced old-school fact-checking teams; however its effectiveness is now under question. Several countries like UK‚ Australia and Brazil (which even blocked X for a bit) raised red flags about content issues
Five state officials wrote to Musk in late-summer about Xʼs AI chatbot spreading wrong election info. The platform already lost one legal fight with CCDH this year: that case was about increased hate-speech on the site. Despite these set-backs‚ X hasnt given any response to latest findings
