Bloomberg analyzed hundreds of Community Notes and found several shortcomings in Twitter (X)’s volunteer content moderation system in the first 2 weeks of the Israel-Gaza conflict. Work by @davey.bsky.social, @denisedslu.bsky.social, Eric Fan, and myself.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-israel-hamas-war-misinformation-twitter-community-notes/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-israel-hamas-war-misinformation-twitter-community-notes/
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- flagged posts weren't publicly annotated for ~7 hrs
- duplicate imgs should've been annotated (they weren’t)
- misinfo spread by paid accounts and previously suspended accounts that Musk reinstated