The “Readers added context” feature is the only good thing about Twitter.
Bro I love that Twitter’s fact checker is just so fuckin petty to Elon lmao
I’m surprised he hasn’t got rid of it yet. Maybe he has to have it in order to keep his few remaining advertisers?
The thing is, it’s usually long enough after his comments have had their impact that these additions are made. It’s really his having/eating cake feature. He can say some out and out false shit, it gets picked up by his base and spread, the community mod a day or two later goes “actually”, and if someone calls him out he can just say “oh but the community mod set things right” if he doesn’t just outright ignore it.
Can someone ELI5 what is the “Readers added context” feature?
I haven’t added one myself, but this is my understanding: all Twitter users can opt into the community notes feature but at first you can only rate notes as helpful or unhelpful. Once you’ve rated 5 notes you have the ability to write your own. You can do so on any tweet, but if your note(s) don’t get enough “helpful” ratings, you lose your ability to write them. You have to go back to rating notes - once you’ve rated 5 more you can write again.
When you add a note you chose a reason why you’re adding it, similar to explaining why you’re reporting a comment on lemmy. If you say that the original tweet is misleading you have to say why and provide a source. It only shows on the tweet to everyone if you get enough “helpful” ratings from the people who have opted into the scheme.
Not very EILI5 but you get the jist!
Thanks, now I understand this better… And yeah this dude is a real jerk.