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3 months into Meta’s pivot to Community Notes, the company has yet to share any data about its crowdsourced moderation feature. With help from three @indicator.media readers in the pilot, I tried to piece together how it’s going: indicator.media/p/a-first-lo...

🚨In PNAS🚨 The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 New in PNAS 🚨 Posts by Republicans are 2.3 times more likely to be flagged as misleading than those by Democrats on X's Community Notes. A 🧵 pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... (Open Access)

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Many thanks to lead author @thomasrenault.bsky.social who does amazing work on Community Notes and other topics; and the always-wonderful coauthor @mmosleh.bsky.social For more of my group's work on misinformation, check out this doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We examine all English notes 1/23-6/24. More notes are proposed on tweets written by Reps than Dems. The partisan diff is MUCH bigger when restricting to "helpful" (ie ~unbiased) notes: 63% on Reps, 37% on Dems. The "vox populi" on X has spoken and concluded that Reps share more misinfo than Dems!

Accusations of bias against conservatives drove Musk to buy Twitter- then gut fact-checking and up Community Notes. This month, Zuckerberg did the same at Meta. But greater sanctioning of conservatives could just be the result of conservatives sharing more misinformation bsky.app/profile/dgra...

🚨New WP🚨 Remember Musk+Zuck+Trump+Jordan etc crying fact-checker bias b/c Reps were flagged more than Dems? We analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and guess what: posts flagged as "misleading" are 67% more likely to be written by Reps! The issue is Reps, not fact-checkers... osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨 Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong! We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps: i) want content moderation ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers thehill.com/opinion/tech...