NEW DELHI: Elon Musk on Thursday stated that his X platform has activated the Group Notes characteristic — a user-based fact-checking programme — in India, because the nation prepares for normal elections.
Musk-owned social media platform additionally welcomed new contributors in India for its neighborhood notes characteristic.
“Group Notes now energetic in India,” wrote the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.
The corporate stated that its first contributors within the nation “are becoming a member of immediately, and we’ll be increasing over time”.
“As at all times, we’ll monitor high quality to make sure that notes are discovered useful by individuals from totally different factors of view,” stated the X platform.
Group Notes now has contributors in 69 nations world wide.
“We’re including extra usually,” stated the Musk-run platform.
In December 2022, the corporate first enabled the flexibility for individuals to have a look at ‘Group Notes’ associated to posts globally.
“Group Notes purpose to create a greater knowledgeable world by empowering individuals on X to collaboratively add context to doubtlessly deceptive posts,” in keeping with the corporate.
Contributors can go away notes on any publish and if sufficient contributors from totally different factors of view fee that word as useful, the word will likely be publicly proven on a publish.
“A publish with a Group Be aware won’t be labelled, eliminated, or addressed by X until it’s discovered to be violating the X Guidelines,” stated the corporate.
