Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch) lets users flag tweets that are misleading. Since Ads on Twitter are just normal tweets, they can be fact checked.
Twitter's average ad quality has plummeted recently, but most of the scam ads I see have a massive user-added disclaimer outlining how it's a scam. I wonder how this affects the click through rate for these ad placements?
I've seen many of these community notes - how exactly do these work ?
Is a community note borne out of "most upvoted" replies to a particular tweet ? If so, how does it go from a simple upvoted reply, to a "community note" ?
It's one of few things at Twitter that work shockingly well and reliable. I've never seen an obvious partisan community note. Other networks should embrace this.
Elon doesn't think so. I would expect it to change soon.
Dramatic changes will likely happen.
In short, from what I understand, each community notes contributor is vector mapped based on their biases/contributions. Now, the only way for a community note to appear is for contributors who typically disagree with each other (based on their vector mapping) to both sign off on that note. I'd imagine in the future (or maybe it's enabled now), these contributors would be "power ranked" so a newbie contributor couldn't community note a member of congress or something.
As Elon said, this will lead to hoardes of people leaving twitter because they cannot handle community notes.
> To find notes that are helpful to the broadest possible set of people, Community Notes takes into account not only how many contributors rated a note as helpful or unhelpful, but also whether people who rated it seem to come from different perspectives.
https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti...
It's somewhat adversarial, with the idea that if people who have disagreed in the past agree on a note, then it's probably true.
So it doesn't work. If it worked, you'd see no, or very little, scam ads.
If you say something obviously untrue there are already laws against fraud and false advertisement. For anything with less burden of proof, a note below your ad that adds context seems adequate