X users correct “GloboNews” about community notes

by Andrea
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Journalist Octavio Guedes mistakenly stated that the feature would be exclusive to verified accounts on the social network

X users (former Twitter) corrected information presented this Friday (10 January 2025) by journalist Octavio Guedes during the GloboNews. The commenter stated that the “community notes” would only be available to users with verified accounts. However, the information is not correct.

“What is ‘community notes’? At X, only those who are verified can give a grade, and you have to pay for it. So, it’s not really a community. It’s for payers, for subscribers […] The community note does not replace fact-checking. Point. This ‘community notes’ thing is just a smokescreen […] The end of fact-checking turns bad into terrible.”said Guedes, in a statement from the broadcaster.

After the speech, internet users used the aforementioned resource to correct the information. “Contrary to what has been said, it is not necessary to be a subscriber (pay) to become a contributor to the community notes. You must have an account older than 6 months, a verified phone number and not have violated X rules.”states one of the community notes added to .

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According to , community notes are described as “a collaborative way to add useful context to posts and keep people better informed”. The resource can be used by any user who meets the established criteria, regardless of subscription.

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X users correct “GloboNews” about community notes

At the time, the journalist was analyzing the end of Meta’s fact-checking system and, by comparison, commenting on the community notes feature available on X.

UNDERSTAND

A decided and suspended restrictions on posts on its social networks Facebook and Instagram. The decision was announced by the company’s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, in a video posted on January 7th.

Zuckerberg says current policies to verify everything posted and content moderation practices “they went too far”. For him, it is necessary “restoring freedom of expression” no Facebook and no Instagram.

Meta and other technology companies have had several meetings with the STF (Supreme Federal Court) and the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) in recent years. They promised the magistrates that they would have a strict policy to control false information that was potentially offensive to democracy.

It is not yet clear how the change now announced by Mark Zuckerberg will be received by the Courts of Justice in Brazil, especially by STF minister Alexandre de Moraes, critic of social networks and rapporteur of the so-called fake news inquiry.

In the video, Zuckerberg also stated that he will speak with the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump (Republican), to try to prevent content from American companies from being censored in other countries for violating local regulations on social networks.

“The United States has the strongest constitutional protections for free speech in the world. Europe has more and more laws that institutionalize censorship, making innovation there very difficult. Latin American countries have ‘secret courts’ that can order companies to silently remove content from platforms”he declared.

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