X, the social network we used to call Twitter, has undergone profound changes in the last year, although among all the negative aspects, there are also some improvements. Community notes, which stop the spread of fake news, can now also be used to verify the content of videos.
Many organizations and observatories agree that the rise of social networks and the immediacy of information have also facilitated the spread of fake news on the web, which seeks political polarization among users. Now, with videos also under the spotlight, the disseminators of hoaxes will see the false or misleading content they share curbed.
Fake news, a serious social problem
X (Twitter) community notes, which have been in place in the United States since 2022 and expanded worldwide a few months ago, have shown great power in reducing the spread of fake news, since community notes can expose the lies being spread by providing data, sources and arguments that dismantle them. Now, with videos also subject to this community fact checking, veracity in networks continues to take steps forward.
In fact, it is not the last recent development, since, since a few days ago, it also began to apply these revisions to the images with the aim of creating a context to avoid that the images could be used in a misleading way, or sharing false content.
Elon Musk’s megalomania
However, this has been one of the few positive contributions that the social network is taking away since Elon Musk has been the owner. In fact, the functionality was part of its previous owners, and the South African tycoon has exported it to the world and expanded it. And the fact is that, with Musk at the helm, the company has been more of a show than a company, with users and advertisers waiting to see what his next idea or the next problem to surface.
Now, after a long time of unpredictable changes, the true intentions of Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, CEO of the company placed by Musk are known: to turn the platform into a multi-service super application in the style of others such as the giant WeChat, which dominates the social aspect in the Chinese market.
