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Too Funny: Twitter/X's "Community Notes" Algorithm Corrects Elon Musk. Twice. [1]

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Date: 2023-12-11

If you have been on Twitter recently, you know it has become some kind of Libertarian fanboy’s playground. Chock full of sexism, fights, gory anecdotes, and exploitation, it has been allowed to turn into a human reflective cesspool.

Often, Elon Musk likes to opine on “free speech” as if that is an excuse for the site degenerating into something that needs an age verification. Yesterday, he had something to say about an American detained in Ukraine.

x An American YouTuber has been imprisoned for 5 years in Ukraine, and allegedly tortured, for making videos.



This is not ok. https://t.co/NPbvARtnde — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2023

He may have more money than most countries, but one thing in my favor is I have never suffered the indignity of my own site questioning my writing.

The Community Notes function kicks in when enough people credibly question the veracity of the original post that the “context” is added.

Community Notes aim to create a better informed world by empowering people on X to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading posts. Contributors can leave notes on any post and if enough contributors from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note will be publicly shown on a post.

Humiliating to say the least. X’ers had a field day with him.

x Elon, did you bother to read the community note? — Captain Spatchcock (@marketamp) December 10, 2023

x So Elon doesn’t pay attention to his community notes either? — Gary Koepnick (@garykoepnick) December 10, 2023

The entire Twitter situation has been an unmitigated disaster for Musk, and now his own internal vetting system has called him out.

Then like any weak person with a megaphone, he blames “state actors” for the note. This, even though the note appears to have been accurate.

x Interesting. This Note is being gamed by state actors. Will be helpful in figuring who they are.



Thanks for jumping in the honey pot, guys lmao! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2023

You might note that after that claim, Community Notes stepped in again to counter his counter, clearly stating Community Notes is not easy to game, no matter what the boss says.

Bwa ha ha ha ha..it’s ALIVE!

It isn’t a world changing incident, but I thought my family here might enjoy a bit of humorous schadenfreude to jumpstart their busy work week.

Apparently at X, Twitter, whatever he wants to call it, Musk is not King.

Context is.

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