Answering a question on how she feels about Meta’s announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Yaccarino said, “How cool is that?”
X introduced the Community Notes feature as a tool for users to fact-check tweets.
“I think it’s really exciting that, when you think about community notes being good for the world, think about it as this global collective consciousness keeping each other accountable at a global scale, in real-time… it couldn’t be more validating than to see that Mark and Meta realised that,” she said.
COMMUNITY NOTES FTW!!! ????
Fact-checking and moderation doesn’t belong in the hands of a few select gatekeepers who can easily inject their bias into decisions. It’s a democratic process that belongs in the hands of many.
And as we’ve seen on X since @CommunityNotes debuted,… https://t.co/zg51yUTGG1
— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) January 7, 2025
She said Meta has come to realise that community notes “[is] the most effective, fastest fact checking without bias”.
“…there’s every language in almost 200 countries on the platform, fastest, most accurate, and also, it inspires great behaviour. Human behavior is inspired because when a post is noted, [it is] dramatically shared less well. That’s the power of community notes, and we say — Mark, Meta, welcome to the party,” Yaccarino added with a chuckle.
She said the “power” of community notes is demonstrated by the fact that more than a million notes have been posted since the feature’s inception.
“…when you think about it, world leaders are on X; Mark and Meta are there; global leaders — business leaders — sharing their thoughts everyday; Gen Z — all on X. Authenticity matters to Gen Z. It’s an incredible validation of the power of what’s good for the world, and that’s community notes,” she added.
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