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Toxic X users sabotage Community Notes that could derail disinfo, report says

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Summary
Nutrition label

70% Informative

Center for Countering Digital Hate flagged 283 misleading X posts fueling election disinformation spread this year that never displayed a Community Note.

74 percent of these posts were found to have accurate notes proposed but never displayed.

The CCDH found that it's seemingly easy to hide an accurate note that challenges a user's bias.

VR Score

74

Informative language

73

Neutral language

18

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

61

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

2

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