News Central
Elon Musk has vowed to “fix” X’s Community Notes feature, arguing that it is being exploited by governments and legacy media.
Community Notes Replaces Fact-Checkers Under Musk
Voice of Nigeria
Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), has relied on the community rather than fact-checkers to monitor misinformation online since acquiring the social media company in 2022. He has championed the Community Notes feature as the best way to correct false posts.
Elon Musk has a problem with X’s Community Notes when he disapproves of the results
CNBC
For X owner Elon Musk, the solution to monitoring misinformation online has been the community, rather than a group of fact checkers. Since buying the social media company formerly known as Twitter in 2022, he’s touted the Community Notes feature as the best way to correct false posts.
Will Meta’s reversal on content moderation pay off?
The National News
One of Meta’s first major announcements of 2025, the move to phase out fact checkers and replace them with a community notes-based system, is still fueling debate in the tech world.
Groundbreaking “hate universe” study reveals links to billions in mainstream communities
PsyPost
Online hate communities are not confined to isolated corners of the internet. In a new study published in npj Complexity shows how these groups are increasingly intersecting with mainstream online spaces.
Dr. Neil Johnson – Hate Groups After Elections
Curious By Nature Podcast
The run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election has seen unprecedented levels of misinformation, division, and hate speech on social media. Even as election day comes and goes and the votes are being counted, the temperature of online discourse is only likely to rise. Online conversations about race, immigration, and other hot-button topics continue to attract extremist views that threaten to drown out anything resembling civil discourse. How do communities of hate operate? And how do they create their networks of users to infiltrate both the major platforms as well as the darker corners of the web? To understand complex systems such as this, one researcher at George Washington University is using his background in particle physics to map and analyze how hate speech flows on social media. We spoke before election day and before any of the votes were counted. So, without knowing the outcome, he gives a sobering warning that the biggest spike in online hate is likely to come after voters go to the polls.
New Findings: Researchers Consider Elections, Hate, and Misinformation
Tech Policy Press
As the outcome of the 2024 US Presidential election hangs in the balance, it is worth looking at new academic research that explores the relationship between elections, political communications, and technology. This piece looks at three recent studies that provide insights into the efficacy of prebunking election misinformation using AI, the resilience and growth of online hate networks, and the shortcomings of political communication research in addressing threats of illiberalism from the far-right.
Xenophobia and Hate Speech Are Spiking Heading Into the Election
New York Times
Leading Republican politicians and lax social media controls have contributed to a proliferation of hate rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Major events fuel hate speech on the Internet
Pressetext
Exemplary study by George Washington University on the 2020 US presidential election
Elections bring online hate groups closer together
Scientias
A new study shows how elections not only fuel new forms of online hate, but also bring existing hate groups closer together.