X Experiments with Community Notes to Highlight Popular Posts
X is testing a new Community Notes feature to spotlight widely liked posts across differing views.
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X Experiments with Community Notes to Highlight Popular Posts X to Test Using Community Notes to Highlight Popular Posts Across Viewpoints Elon Musk’s social platform, X, is launching a new experiment that reimagines how Community Notes could do more than just fact-check content. The platform will test whether this tool can identify posts that resonate broadly—even among users who typically disagree. Community Notes, known for its crowdsourced fact-checking, will now be used to surface highly liked posts based on diverse user feedback. This new feature aims to reveal not just what is accurate, but what connects users across ideological divides. Image : Google How X's Community Notes is Evolving The core function of Community Notes has been fact-checking through consensus. Unlike traditional upvote-downvote systems, X’s method incorporates a “bridging algorithm” that prioritizes agreement between users with opposing perspectives. When people who rarely align on political or cultural topics agree on a note’s accuracy, it’s published publicly. This…
