Episode Synopsis "Do Community Notes work?"

Following Meta’s announcement that it would replace professional fact checkers with Community Notes, Tom Stafford assesses the evidence for the effectiveness of community notes as a form of collective intelligence and discusses how the algorithms underpinning them play a key role in shaping our information environment. Meta recently announced that they would move away from using … Continued

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