X's crowdsourced approach to correcting what it calls fake news about COVID-19 vaccines offers an 'effective misinformation countermeasure,' according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
JAMA study praises X for crowdsourcing COVID ‘misinformation’X’s crowdsourced approach to correcting what it calls fake news about COVID-19 vaccines offers an “effective misinformation countermeasure,” according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“The reality is we don’t know what other social media platforms are doing or what legacy Twitter was doing before Musk,” Mr. Ayers told The Washington Times. “What makes X’s program unique is its transparency.” More than half the notes targeted claims about vaccine side effects. The next most popular topics, in descending order, were conspiracies, government vaccine recommendations and the effectiveness of the shots.
Conservatives praise Mr. Musk for lifting the previous Twitter regime’s ban on former President Donald Trump and fellow voices on the right. They also call the left’s “misinformation” tag simply a way to censor users on social media and other platforms.The JAMA study didn’t examine community notes on election posts.
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