Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its customers globally, the corporate introduced on Saturday. Beforehand referred to as Birdwatch, the function first debuted in 2021 under former CEO Jack Dorsey as means for the social media web site to fight misinformation.
Group Notes takes a crowd-sourced method to debunking deceptive tweets. Moderators who’re a part of this system can append notes to tweets so as to add “context.” Common customers can then vote on whether or not they discover the context “useful.” Earlier than immediately, solely people within the US might see the notes. Twitter says it can begin including contributors from different areas quickly.
Starting immediately, Group Notes are seen world wide 🌎🌍🌏
— Group Notes (@CommunityNotes) December 11, 2022
Present firm proprietor Elon Musk has positioned Group Notes as a essential ingredient of his “Twitter 2.0” vision, claiming the function shall be “a gamechanger for bettering accuracy on Twitter.” Nonetheless, as with all crowd-sourced function, there’s the potential for Group Notes to backfire if teams use the device to advertise partisan views.
The worldwide rollout of Group Notes comes a day earlier than the relaunch of Twitter Blue. Following a disastrous first attempt at paid account verification, Twitter introduced on Saturday it might begin rolling out its revamped subscription service once more on Monday. This time round, subscribers might want to present a quantity for verification functions earlier than the corporate will add a blue checkmark to their account. Moreover, customers who change their deal with, show title and profile picture will briefly lose their blue checkmark whereas Twitter evaluations their account.
