Community Notes

Um, I was standing in a cafe ordering a coffee, and I've opened up my phone and I saw a video of Mark Zuckerberg, who was announcing some changes, uh, around the, uh, safety policies on Meta platforms, which look after billions of people around the world, as we well know.

And the decision had been made to roll back, uh, restrictions around what people can and can't say in favor of a thing called Community Notes, which was basically a, a community-led verification of what content could go onto this, these platforms and not.

So it was a bit of a concerning moment for me, because basically what it meant is that they were gonna roll back their restrictions around things like fact-checkers, so there was a risk of a rise of misinformation and disinformation.

And because there was a concern around, uh, censorship and the impact on free speech, they wanted people to be able to express themselves in different ways.

What do you think of the Twitter product and direction today?

Listen, I always liked what we call Birdwatch, which is now Community Notes-

Mm.

-rebranded.

Yeah.

And then I guess that's where Community Notes comes into question of if that works or not.

Because we're using Community Notes on X and Meta, correct? Yes.

Whatever apps.

Yeah.

Threads and Instagram both have them.

I don't know if it's on Blue yet, but it's on Threads and Instagram.

So I'm a pretty active participant in Community Notes.