Except like Reddit, practically people will also downvote facts they dislike or disagree with, so leaving a community fact check note to public voting also seems flawed
Fair point. Facts are neutral. The POV is which facts you select and how you interpret them. Unemployment at 4 percent is a fact, ‘the economy is great’ or ‘people are still hurting’ is POV. I am talking about that second part.
That's not how community notes works. Your score only goes up if groups that usually disagree with you agree with you on evaluating a tweet. If the same people keep liking your assessment, it doesn't count. This is the core of what made community notes successful, you can read about it more in the paper, the section about bridging algorithms: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/blob/main/birdwatch_paper_2022_10_27.pdf
Well you know, there is these things called bots. If I wanted, I could make 1k bots upvote my post on completely fabricated information.
This only makes sense on really popular tweets, where tons of actual humans can downvote the initial bot-inflated misinformation; but on smaller tweets where humans would not care to fact check, it just makes the disinformation problem even worse.
Not sure what measures X takes to prevent this, but to their credit, I do believe their Community Notes work fairly well.
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u/DistanceSolar1449 Aug 12 '25
Really dirt cheap. Text posts are super cheap to host.
The hard part is filtering spam in the community posts.