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Twitter launches new alerts for tweets from the Community Notes

Twitter has released yet another update to its “Community Notes” feature, this time adding a new notice when a tweet you’ve previously engaged with gets a new note attached.

It’s a useful upgrade that could reduce the spread of misleading news and help clear up disinformation by pointing out mistakes and allowing individuals to reconsider their first reaction. It should, at the very least, enhance information flow within the app by informing users of significant clarifications and updates made by the Notes community.

Elon Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” reformulation plan now includes Community Notes as a vital component. In Musk’s opinion, notes will enable the Twitter community to provide critical updates and feedback on tweets.

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As a result, Twitter users will be able to edit their own content in accordance with community standards rather than having to rely on Twitter to make such judgments.

Tweets’ content should then more closely match what users generally expect, rather than what Twitter’s administration thinks. Musk has been a vocal opponent of Twitter’s past attempts to censor speech, and through Community Notes, he hopes to make things better while also easing the burden on Twitter.

Leaving particular instances aside, Community Notes does make sense as a second defense against false information but allowing the community to exercise its own moderation comes with some inherent dangers and shortcomings.

Several Community Notes have misconstrued the original tweet or have concentrated on a minor feature of the message, consequently invalidating the entire tweet based on that one aspect.

Community Notes essentially serve as an additional moderating tool that is useful but not sufficient in and of itself.

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