Elon Musk's X Expands Community Notes to India 2f2g50 Allows s to Become Contributors

After expanding contributors for Community Notes to India, the feature now has from 69 countries. 3b4i36

Written by Manas Mitul | Updated: 5 April 2024 15:11 IST

Elon Musk's X Expands Community Notes to India, Allows s to Become Contributors

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To become a contributor, a must have at least six months old

Highlights

Community Notes was released on X in November 2022 replacing Birdwatch
It is an open-source moderation tool to detect and label misinformation
Posts corrected by Community Notes are not eligible for ad revenue

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X (formerly known as Twitter) expanded its Community Notes' contributor positions to India on Thursday. With this development, Indian s can apply to become contributors to this open-source moderation tool to rate and review posts that are misleading or are spreading misinformation. Community Notes was officially introduced in November 2022 but at the time of launch, s were only selected from a few countries. Now, with the addition of India, the tool has contributors from 69 countries.

The announcement was made via a post by the official of Community Notes. It said, “Welcome new contributors in India. Our first contributors are ing today, and we'll be expanding over time. As always, we'll monitor quality to ensure that notes are found helpful by people from different points of view.” Musk also posted about the development.

Becoming a Community Notes contributor is easy but s will have to fulfill some eligibility criteria. As per X guidelines, the must have ed the platform at least six months ago, have a verified phone number from a trusted phone carrier, and have no recent platform rules violations. The should not be associated with other Community Notes s.

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Once these requirements are met, s can apply to become contributors here. The process just requires highlighting the languages a is proficient in and agreeing to X's and conditions. However, one thing to note is after ing as a contributor s will not directly be able to review or rate posts. Contributors will only be able to rate Community Notes to denote how helpful they are. Based on the regularity of rating notes and accuracy in assessing the posts, a can later be ed by the platform to become a contributor who writes Community Notes for others to rate.

Interestingly, before November 2022, Community Notes was known as Birdwatch. Birdwatch was introduced in 2020 as a moderation tool to identify and debunk misinformation and propaganda. However, after Musk took charge of the social media platform, he rebranded the tool and made it open-source. X states that the feature is not controlled by it and only s rate and review posts. Further, the platform publishes all the Community Notes data daily which can be ed for inspection.

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