Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino said Friday at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris that X would like to export its crowd-sourced fact-checking feature, Community Notes, to newspapers and other platforms. Addressing fellow panelist Pierre Louet, chief executive of French newspaper conglomerate Groupe Les Echos-Le Parisien, Yaccarino said, “It is not impossible to imagine that this particular tool could be shared by Has gone.”
X, formerly Twitter, first launched a version of Community Notes in 2021 as a way for its users to fact-check misleading posts on the platform. Volunteers will add more context to potentially misleading user posts through additional notes, which are then voted on by other “noters”. X’s algorithms will then decide which context notes against misleading posts should be publicly displayed.
Since purchasing the site in 2022, owner Elon Musk has pushed the tool as a bulwark against misinformation and, at times, as a viable alternative to mainstream journalism.
There is evidence that this system is more effective for some subjects than others. Although it specializes in fact-checking scientific or medical information, it has struggled with more controversial topics such as Israel’s war with Hamas, Bloomberg News reports.
Yaccarino said that the system could “remove bias” and that there were more than 500,000 volunteers contributing to the system.
Elsewhere during the panel, Yaccarino echoed popular talking points with Musk, blaming legacy media for experiencing a decline in revenue due to online ad spending going to tech platforms like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platform Inc.
“We’ve moved into a world of a clickbait mentality and a partisan news environment that really works against the legacy revenue model,” said Yaccarino, who previously headed NBCUniversal’s global advertising business. “When you look at the point of origin of the problem, it’s because we’ve moved into this world where the fringes are louder, and we want someone to click first.”
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