X will no longer pay creators for tweets promoting misinformation. Elon Musk said the company is making a \u201cslight change\u201d to its monetization program and that tweets that are fact-checked via community notes will no longer be eligible for payouts as part of X\u2019s revenue-sharing program.<\/p>\n
The update appears to be an attempt to remove incentives for high-profile accounts to spread viral misinformation. \u201cThe idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism,\u201d Musk said. X also recently started to require community notes contributors to cite their sources<\/ins><\/a> in fact checks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The latest change comes as researchers, fact checkers and journalists have raised the alarm about the amount of viral misinformation spreading on X amid the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza. European Union officials have opened an investigation<\/ins><\/a> into the company\u2019s handling of misinformation related to the war.<\/p>\n Following Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter a year ago, the company laid off teams responsible for curating and promoting reputable tweets about breaking news events and removed tools for reporting misinformation in the app. Instead, the company has relied on its crowd-sourced fact checking tool, community notes.<\/p>\n But critics have said that community notes are subject to manipulation<\/ins><\/a> and that the user-contributed fact checks are often unable to keep up with the sheer amount of viral falsehoods, particularly those promoted by verified accounts. A recent analysis<\/ins><\/a> from NewsGuard, a nonprofit that tracks the spread of misinformation, found that 74 percent of \u201cthe most viral posts on X advancing misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War are being pushed by \u2018verified\u2019 X accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n As BBC researcher Shayan Sardarizadeh pointed out<\/ins><\/a>, the change to make tweets with community notes ineligible for payments has already been criticized by a number of high-profile accounts whose tweets are often \u201ccommunity noted.\u201d Musk added that \u201cany attempts to weaponize @CommunityNotes to demonetize people will be immediately obvious,\u201d but didn\u2019t say how the company would deal with attempts at manipulation. X didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/x-wont-pay-creators-for-tweets-that-get-fact-checked-with-community-notes-174206477.html?src=rss
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