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Toxic X users sabotage Community Notes that could derail disinfo, report says | It’s easy for biased users to bury accurate Community Notes, report says.
It’s easy for biased users to bury accurate Community Notes, report says.
That's the question the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is asking after digging through a million notes in a public X dataset to find out how many misleading claims spreading widely on X about the US election weren't quickly fact-checked. But the CCDH found that it's seemingly easy to hide an accurate note that challenges a user's bias by simply refusing to rate it or downranking it into oblivion. Among the most-viewed misleading claims where X failed to add accurate notes were posts spreading lies that "welfare offices in 49 states are handing out voter registration applications to illegal aliens," the Democratic party is importing voters, most states don't require ID to vote, and both electronic and mail-in voting are "too risky."
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