Why Twitter’s Community Notes feature mostly fails to combat misinformation An attempt to solve ‘the problem of biased fact-checkers’ has left most Notes unseen by public, fact-checking conference is told June 30, 2023 Madison Czopek
Elon Musk keeps Birdwatch alive — under a new name Despite sparring with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey over its name, Musk has thrown his support behind the company’s crowdsourced context-adding tool November 8, 2022 Alex Mahadevan
Twitter’s Birdwatch takes off for a test flight For the first time, normal Twitter users will see the platform’s fact-checking experiment in action. Power users remain skeptical of its impact. March 3, 2022 Alex Mahadevan
Here are Twitter’s most prolific citizen fact-checkers Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking platform Birdwatch is improving. Meet the non-journalists fighting misinformation on it. July 15, 2021 Alex Mahadevan
Factually: Twitter, your Birdwatch has problems This is the Feb. 18, 2021 edition of Factually. More than half of the content in Birdwatch does not include a single source. February 18, 2021 Alex Mahadevan
Analysis: Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems A Poynter analysis found that less than half of Birdwatch users include sources and many fact-checking notes contain partisan rhetoric. February 18, 2021 Alex Mahadevan
