In the age of lightning-speed communication, it’s more important now than ever to have good media literacy. It’s how you can tell the difference between misinformation and actual facts. Unfortunately, some people are more than happy to click the reshare button without considering what they’re doing.
The @cnviolations account shares some of the most epic moments when community fact-checkers called out misinformation on X (formerly Twitter). Scroll down to see just how shameless some lies on social media can get... and why informative context is so important!
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As we’ve covered on Bored Panda recently, some people like to believe in conspiracy theories because it gives them a sense of control in a chaotic and confusing world. The scarier and more uncertain a situation is, the more likely that people will cling to theories that, though inaccurate, help them make sense of the world.
Conspiracy theories aren’t backed by evidence. The people who believe in them discount any evidence that doesn’t support them. However, if you’re willing to consider evidence and are open to changing your mind when given solid proof, you’re less likely to fall victim to a conspiracy theory.
It's really sad that people like this exist. Hate just for the sake of hating.
The world doesn’t objectively become a less complicated place because someone chooses to believe simplistic black-or-white narratives. It’s up to us to look for the nuances and embrace them, even if they’re uncomfortable or don’t match our subjective experiences or political leanings.
A good rule of thumb is to be extremely wary of claims that are overly simplistic or have very clear heroes and villains. The world is more complicated than clean and clear fights between perfect good and total evil. That’s why context, provided by reliable sources, matters so much.
I can't believe we have to tell anyone that but here we find ourselves.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sounds of the vacuum vaginas.
Over 693.6K people follow @cnviolations, aka ‘community notes violating people,’which documents some of the most epic takedowns of misinformation, as done by members of the @communitynotes project—a real program meant to combat lies on X.
The @cnviolations account on X is in no way affiliated with the social network, nor the @communitynotes program. However, indirectly, it shares a lot of comedic moments and also shows to what extent some social media users twist the truth or believe in others’ lies.
The actual Community Notes project has 782.8K followers and describes itself as a collaborative way to add helpful context to posts. This way, everyone using X or reading tweets (or are those called Xs now?) elsewhere, can stay better informed.
Though it’s no panacea, the project does reduce the number of people who are misled. All with the power of helpful notes!
My cousin uses a wheelchair and he used to be able to cross his legs in one. Unfortunately he can't anymore as he has got weaker but he used to
The people who contribute to the Community Notes mission are regular users of the X social network. They sign up to write and rate notes. As the founders of the project point out, “the more people that participate, the better the program becomes.” It’s not like random notes show up on posts all over X, however.
Only notes that are rated helpful by people “from diverse perspectives” appear on posts.
It amazes me what people go through to try to prove their superiority to others rather than accepting everyone is equal. Also access to trading platforms have greatly increased along with access to relevant data. Further, calculators that actually do this type of alleged math actually exist. I had one in high school in the mid 90s
Most sharks need to have water passing through their gills to breathe, they must be in constant motion. Can we stop pulling them out of their home.
“To identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people, notes require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings,” the Community Notes team explains in detail.
They believe that it’s vital to give X users a voice in providing informative, diverse context to posts on the network.
One of the fundamental values of Community Notes is transparency. “All contributions are published daily, and our ranking algorithm can be inspected by anyone,” the founders point out that anyone is able to see how things work “under the hood.” It’s nice to see that they’re staying consistent on the importance of openness in everything that they do.
Didn't he also start beef with Disney and was surprised they took action against him?
Says someone who once identified as Korean despite being British, and having lived in Korea for ONE YEAR. Now professional sucker-upper and spewer of right wing talking points...
Any contributor can suggest a note on any post. Other contributors then rate those notes. However, it’s not a popularity contest by any means. “Because notes need to genuinely be found helpful by people who tend to disagree, the program is more likely to identify notes that many people find helpful.”
One question that X users have is whether other users can be trusted to add context to other people’s posts.
“We believe regular people can valuably contribute to identifying and adding helpful context to potentially misleading information. Many of the internet’s existing collaborative sites thrive with the help of non-expert contributions—Wikipedia, for example—and, while it’s not a cure-all, research has shown the potential of incorporating crowdsourced-based approaches as part of a broader toolkit to address misleading information on the internet,” the Community Notes team explains.
According to surveys conducted by the project, people were 20 to 40% less likely to agree with potentially misleading posts if they could read a note attached to them.
Which of these misinfo takedowns impressed you the most? Which ones made you giggle? What’s your personal relationship with X been like after it changed its name from Twitter? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comment section after you’ve enjoyed this list to the fullest, dear Pandas.
She's a dumb a** that's only relevant because of her last name and inevitable stock holdings of Hilton hotels.
Based on pure numbers, she's a better business person than the racist orange.
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plot twist, she is a vampire who lived then.. (just a fun, no bad meant, you know, cause vampires live that long /jk)
"Yes, but they're not really selfies unless they're uploaded to the internet I created" -- Al Gore.
I like Paris. She is really funny and just playing dumb most of the time
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Final Fantasy VIII had a character called "Selphie" that was responsible for The Garden's social media. This was in 1999.
17 years ago, I invented the automobile. What's your favorite? I'll judge you because I invented them.
But she may have come close to inventing embarrassing sex acts on camera that (somehow) get leaked.
I always washed my turtle's shell from above and below with a soft toothbrush and warm water. This is common, but of course the turtle doesn't like it. A turtle needs a clean shell because it produces vitamins from sunlight. If you don't clean the shell and dirt, moss or algae forms on the shell, the turtle can die.
You would think he didn't have access to the Internet and how to use Google.
Also trauma! Bug infestations of any sort can cause trauma, but bedbugs in particular are prone to causing it due to the physical and mental toll they take.
the name of the account of OP should tell everything one need to know about the factual correctness of this s**t!
At first I read it as “demonize”. That can be an option too I guess.
Reader added context: if you see anything claiming that a young woman is allowed to be a high-ranking politician in Japan, fact check it immediately lmao
Uber is a scam. They claim they are a service to hook up private citizens, but control everything including what can be charged. And at the same time try to convince governments and such that these people aren't their employees so that they don't have to pay for their benefits. This is how you take an already low paying job in a lot of areas (taxi driver) and ring out money from it to make a few people rich. Another thing I don't understand is that if you ask people these days if they would hitch a ride and they will tell you that no way they would get into a stranger's car.
It is not Community Notes fault that he makes a mistake every time he posts and has to be corrected.
Only the most corrupt politician has to fall back to this line. There's always someone from the same party willing to stand up and win the next election. Also, this frauds district has been republican since its creation in 1996 (through redrawing of their maps). It is the wealthiest district in all of NY. Tell me... what party do weathy people generally vote for because of their f**ked up income tax ideas?
All latin based languages are colonizers languages. As the romans invented the concept of colonies. A common joke amongst linguist is "what is the difference between a language and a dialect ?" A language has an army and a navy.
My grandfather and my father were cabinet makers... it's a long learnship process. No unskilled at all.
Well... Just because he's fake doesn't have to mean his happiness is..... Right🤣🤣🤣
I beg to differ. 3 of the 6 people in the image were part of the original meme
Well there is many "collided bullets in Gallipoli Museum of war, that both have been fired and was mid air during the collision.
I don't even get what the original author was trying to point out with that.
It's a tiny bit pathetic that some dudes can't bear to play a game if they don't want to f**k the women in it. Do grow up.
That's about latin people in the US where you can have neutral language. In my country neutral language is something that is only beginning to be attempted to and from trans and non-binary people mostly. And yeah most people would use latine as latinx has been mostly outdated on circles where this language is attempting to be created. Where I'm from, speaking against such terms is a form of hate speech against trans people, 99% of people who speak against neutral speech creation are transphobic or don't understand the importance of it for queer people. I'm just saying this as another country context as it's very upsetting to see the equality that queer people in some sort of power fight for here every day be discarded and put as wrong by people that don't live here with this everyday fear. Not every country is the same and latin america is huge, maybe on another one this is something horrible, but on mine is a sign of hope and inclusion that I will not see made less off.
That's very possible but I think other people having low ping versus people with high ping can actually favor the latter in a lot of fighting games.
From the comments here, I can tell that a lot more people then me on here watch Matt Rose...
Some of these are good, some of these are not. Just cause the majority says a thing doesn't mean that thing is correct. Just look at the majority of politicians saying it's okay to genocide the gaza strip.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It was really sickening to hear the politicians say "all of them" in response to a question of "how many dead Palestinians are enough?".
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If I ever learn anything from this website it is this. Keep your fat ignorant mouth shut or face consequences.
From the comments here, I can tell that a lot more people then me on here watch Matt Rose...
Some of these are good, some of these are not. Just cause the majority says a thing doesn't mean that thing is correct. Just look at the majority of politicians saying it's okay to genocide the gaza strip.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It was really sickening to hear the politicians say "all of them" in response to a question of "how many dead Palestinians are enough?".
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