Now, weeks before India's 2024 general elections,
Elon Musk owned EX has announced the rollout of community
notes.
Now community Notes, previously known as Bird Watch,
is a social media companies crowdsourced fact checking program.
According to Access Post, the first set of contributors from
India will be able to start posting notes from the
4th of April.
But who are these contributors now?
Excess community knows contributors are volunteers from the public.
Have access to tools to monitor tweets and replies that
might be misleading.
The contributors will provide more context to popular posts to
debunk any myths and will offer broader insights.
In fact, not just that,
contributors can leave notes on any post,
and if enough contributors from different points of view or
political leanings rate the note as helpful,
it will be publicly shown on the post.
Now these polls are then rated by users based on
helpfulness and accuracy.
X aims to create a better informed world by empowering
people to collaboratively.
We add context to potentially misleading posts.
According to XS blog post,
community notes assess different perspectives to avoid any bias.
But how will this new feature benefit Indians?
The feature will help ex users Fact Check information circulated
on the platform,
especially ahead of Lok Sabha elections.
Starting on April 19th.
The Community notes feature currently.
As contributors present in 69 countries and is available to
all ex users.
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