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Elon Musk has a problem with X's Community Notes when he disapproves of the results

Published on: 2025-07-12 16:59:20

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images 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. That is, until he didn't like the results. Musk wrote in a post Thursday that he intends to "fix" Community Notes because it "is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media." He provided no evidence to support his claim. What apparently set Musk off was information members added in Community Notes correcting posts on X that claimed Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the country's elected president, had low approval ratings among its citizens. The Kyiv Inte ... Read full article.