How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

About this episode

Keith Coleman and Jay Baxter discuss how Community Notes on X helps reduce viral misinformation through crowdsourced fact-checking.

Community Notes on X started with a wild idea: Instead of tech companies deciding what's true, what if you let people fact-check each other? Jay Baxter and Keith Coleman, who helped build the crowdsourced system adding context to misleading posts, discuss how the program reduces viral misinformation — and why people across the political spectrum trust it. In conversation with TED guest curator Audrey Tang, they discuss how their "surprising agreement" algorithm could reveal the common ground that quietly exists across a polarized internet. (Followed by a note from TED guest curators Divya Siddarth and Audrey Tang) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Audrey Tang

Guests: Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter

Topics covered

• misinformation
• community engagement
• crowdsourcing
• political trust
• fact-checking

Keywords

• Community Notes
• misinformation
• fact-checking
• crowdsourced system
• political spectrum

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Organizations: TED, Acast

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