
Can crowdsourced fact-checking curb misinformation on social media?
Prof. Preslav Nakov
created: May 19, 2025, 10:20 a.m. | updated: May 20, 2025, 9:30 a.m.
While Community Notes has the potential to be extremely effective, the difficult job of content moderation benefits from a mix of different approaches.
So, one of the first questions I asked myself was: will replacing human factcheckers with crowdsourced Community Notes have negative impacts on users?
A team of researchers from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Rochester found that X’s Community Notes program can reduce the spread of misinformation, leading to post retractions by authors.
Having studied and written about content moderation for years, it’s great to see another major social media company implementing crowdsourcing for content moderation.
Similarly, social media platforms can benefit from different approaches to content moderation.
1 month, 1 week ago: MIT Technology Review