Study says X Community Notes missed most false election claims

A NewsGuard study found X’s Community Notes missed most false election claims ahead of the US midterm elections.

Community Notes lets X users add context or corrections to posts, and other platforms are adopting similar systems.

NewsGuard identified dozens of posts with false claims, including bogus allegations of election fraud, but only 13 received Community Notes.

The study said 93.1% of the false claims went unflagged, and the uncorrected posts drew millions of interactions before the Nov.

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NewsGuard also said Elon Musk had made at least four false claims about the election, none of which received a note.

The findings raise questions about relying on crowdsourced corrections, which researchers say work best when there is broad agreement on a topic.

X did not respond to a request for comment, and the sources give no further action planned by the company.