X Would like to expen Linda yaccarino Said at the Vivatech Technology Conference in Paris on Friday. “It is not impossible to imagine that this particular tool is shared by x to companies like yours, other platforms,” YACCARINO SAID, Addressing Fellow Panelist Pierre Loutete, CHIEF Execive Officer of French Newspaper Group Groupe Les Echos-Le Parisien.
X, formerly TwitterFirst launched a version of Community Notes in 2021 as a way for its users to fact-check Misleading posts on the platform. Volunteers will add more context to potentially Misleading user posts through additional notes, which are then voted on by other “noters.” X’S Algorithms will then decide which context Note Should appear publicly against the misleading post.
Since buying the site in 2022, owner Elon musk Has pushed the tool as a bulwark against misinformation – and obccasional as a viable alternative to mainstream journey.
There is evidence that system is more effective for some topics than others. While it’s adept at fact-checking scientific or medical information, it has struggled with more contential topics wash as israel’s war with hamas, bloomberg news reported.
Yachcarino said the system can “Force out bias” and that there was more than 500,000 Volunteers Contributing to the system.
Elsewhere during the panel, yachcarino echoed talking points popular with musk, appearing to blame the legacy media for experience Alphabet inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc,
“We’ve Moved to a World of a Clickbait Mentality and A Partisan News Environment that Actually Works Against The Legacy Revenue Models,” said yachcarino, who wasformerly the head of nbcun’s Global Adi Business. “When you look at the point of origin of the problem, it is being we moved to this world where the fringe is loud, and we want someone to click first.”
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