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People need to be able to trust that.

And merely having it be kind of vote-based and this kind of thing, you could imagine that being quite swingy or it could be dominated by some factions or whatever, or manipulable.

And so Community Notes achieves this kind of trust.

It uses this bridging algorithm, which means that it looks for proposed notes that people have written, which achieve some kind of consensus of being useful.

according to an inferred sort of axis of usual disagreement.

So it kind of looks for... And what that ends up being in practice is that the principal component of disagreement is usually left-right politics, but not always.

But that kind of gives you this kind of gold standard for this note is considered useful by a broad segment of society.

It bridges gaps.

It's useful in that sense.

So this is community notes.

It's crowdsourced in that sense.

Now, one project that we're supporting is ways of accelerating that.

So a real issue with community notes is some misleading or confusing or unhelpful message can kind of make it around the world, go viral in minutes or hours.

And the trouble is this community notes process, of course, takes time.

Someone has to notice and flag this.

Then it has to enter kind of a queue or a pool.

And the community of people that contribute notes, they have to then notice this.

They have to do some research.

They have to put together a potential context that they want to provide.

Then that has to go into this voting algorithm and we have to kind of infer, is it a useful note and all this kind of thing.