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Yes, something is wrong. People are wrong, some of the time, about reality. So any attempt to inform people better will misinform sometimes. The question is wh
by yorwba 3y ago
Yes, something is wrong. People are wrong, some of the time, about reality. So any attempt to inform people better will misinform sometimes.
The question is whether tweets with Community Notes are more often correct than the Community Notes attached to them. If yes, then this feature promotes disinformation on net and should probably be disabled. Otherwise, it's an improvement over the status quo ante.
Since tweets are promoted by viral engagement whereas Community Notes aren't, I think it's likely that the former are wrong more often. Though probably further improvements can be made, e.g. to prevent drive-by "this is helpful" votes from outweighing higher-effort "I checked the source and it doesn't say what you said it says" votes.
- amenhotep 3y agoIt doesn't seem obviously true that that's the question? Random tweets are just random tweets, a not insignificant number of people know that they should be regarded sceptically. Community notes are seemingly authoritative, definitive, purport to present an accepted consensus. If 50% of random tweets were wrong and a mere 49% of community notes were wrong, then your heuristic would decide they're helpful but to me it would seem strongly arguable that the more convincing nature of the wrong ones would far outweigh such a minor improvement in accuracy.