Community Notes

AI slop

Elon Musk is this year’s King of Digital Deception

Dec 17, 2025

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26 min read

Elon Musk is this year’s King of Digital Deception

And some more serious findings – including a great reading list – from our survey of 53 experts

Alexios Mantzarlis

Fact-checking

Dec 1, 2025

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10 min read

Community Notes: Big in Japan

Why are Japan’s amateur fact-checkers doing better on X?

Alexios Mantzarlis

Reporting

An AI bot is now the top contributor to Community Notes on X

Nov 18, 2025

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8 min read

An AI bot is now the top contributor to Community Notes on X

But synthetic contributors aren’t replacing humans – yet

Alexios Mantzarlis

Fact-checking

Oct 9, 2025

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9 min read

Community fact-checking on X survived Elon Musk. It may not survive AI.

A new working paper looks at the durability of Community Notes

Alexios Mantzarlis

Community Notes

Sep 19, 2025

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12 min read

Briefing: Finally, some data about Meta's Community Notes program

Plus: Tools for archiving YouTube videos, identifying manhole covers, and scanning scam infrastructure

Craig Silverman, +1

Fact-checking

I reviewed 100 of TikTok’s “Footnotes” so you don’t have to

Aug 6, 2025

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3 min read

I reviewed 100 of TikTok’s “Footnotes” so you don’t have to

Most of them were useless

Alexios Mantzarlis

OSINT

Briefing: AI bots join Community Notes and Clothoff whistleblower speaks

Jul 4, 2025

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10 min read

Briefing: AI bots join Community Notes and Clothoff whistleblower speaks

Plus: Academics try fighting AI peer reviews with hidden prompts, SCOTUS refuses to review case against fact-checkers, and a tool that lets you search X without being logged in.

Craig Silverman, +1

AI slop

Jun 20, 2025

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14 min read

Briefing: Elon Musk's rare Community Notes and AI slop everywhere

Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week

Craig Silverman, +1

Content moderation

Jun 17, 2025

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3 min read

A first look at Meta’s Community Notes

Zuckerberg's pivot to crowdsourcing features three jacked dudes, a flirty farmer, and some useful notes

Alexios Mantzarlis

OSINT

May 30 Briefing: X Community Notes goes down and new tool fools running apps

May 30, 2025

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10 min read

May 30 Briefing: X Community Notes goes down and new tool fools running apps

Your must reads and must tries on the digital deception beat this week

Alexios Mantzarlis, +1

Content moderation

The top Community Notes contributor is...an antivirus startup?

May 26, 2025

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2 min read

The top Community Notes contributor is...an antivirus startup?

I thought someone was gaming X’s crowdsourced moderation; instead, they appear to be helping clean up the platform’s mess for free.

Alexios Mantzarlis

Content moderation

Turns out Community Notes are also "biased"

Apr 9, 2025

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11 min read

Turns out Community Notes are also "biased"

A preprint finds X's Community Notes disproportionately label Republican posts; Rome's chatbot resists my jailbreaks; and Barron Trudeau is trending

Alexios Mantzarlis

AI slop

Feb 26, 2025

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15 min read

Why is Musk mad about Community Notes?

Musk says Community Notes are "being gamed"; AI slop is the lure for a scam operation; and TikTok videos kill Pope Francis.

Alexios Mantzarlis

Reporting

Will the EU's disinformation rules matter?

Feb 19, 2025

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19 min read

Will the EU's disinformation rules matter?

The EU's code of conduct on disinformation is integrated into the Digital Services Act. Plus: Community Notes users ❤️ fact-checkers

Alexios Mantzarlis

Content moderation

Jan 13, 2025

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15 min read

Chasing the crowd

What we seek when we turn to crowd-driven fact-checking

Alexios Mantzarlis

Nov 13, 2024

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16 min read

X's Community Notes on Election Day were noisy and marginal

Plus: Instagram ads flog deceptive AI influencer get-rich schemes, and bots target Ghana's election

Alexios Mantzarlis

Community Notes

Jun 19, 2024

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18 min read

YouTube goes Birdwatching

Plus: America's collateral damage | There are no AI candidates

Alexios Mantzarlis