Keith Coleman

You can download the real data, the community notes and ratings, run the code on the data to verify that there's no funny business that we're doing on our end, like there's no override button.

So it's really by the people.

Yeah, so this is a real example of a community note we're looking at.

So basically here the post on the left is about Iran and it's saying the USS Lincoln has been damaged and there's casualties.

But actually the image is AI generated.

So this thing on the right here that says readers added context, they thought people might want to know, that's a community note.

And what it's doing there is it's actually giving a lot of specific details about what's wrong in the image.

And it turns out that that level of detail that it goes into is a big reason why people on both sides of the political spectrum actually trust community notes more than a generic misinfo warning.

The way these get here in the first place is they're actually written by a regular user, a community notes contributor.

And before they show on the platform to everyone and attach on the post, they are rated helpful by people from different perspectives.

So they're not shown unless that happens.

Another quick thing to call out is actually a lot of the best notes are not just fact checks.

They can add context to posts that are correct but otherwise misleading.

Yeah, it's a really good question, and it's one we got all the time getting started, but the reality is people do trust Community Notes on both sides of the political spectrum, and I think there's a couple big reasons why.

One is the process behind it.

So it's totally open, transparent, verifiable.

You can actually, and this is pretty wild in the world of social media, you can actually download the real algorithm code that runs in production

You can download the real data, the community notes and ratings, run the code on the data to verify that there's no funny business that we're doing on our end.

There's no override button.

So it's really by the people.