Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy: without it people cannot make an informed vote. The aim was to bring X more to the center as a town square, not to ban left-wing voices.
"Twitter would be a good way to talk directly to the public and bypass the media"
"de facto town square"
"digital town square"
"digital town square"
"some of my comments about twitter being sort of like a digital town square"
"can you can we get uh daily active users over a billion"
"digital Town Square"
"Social media in general, especially Twitter, were eroding civilization. If civilization collapses before Mars becomes self-sustaining, then nothing else matters."
"if somebody's got to pay the servers, okay, so the speech has got to cost at least $8 because otherwise how do we pay the friggin server bill?"
"if the 2 gigabyte thing is real, then we can actually have long videos with an improved codec."
"the Twitter stack right now is like basically combining the difficulties of three different worlds"
"Have subscriber revenue be a meaningful part of Twitter revenue is going to be essential for the prosperity survival of Twitter."
"Unfortunately I think a rewrite is needed."
"Twitter certainly needs to enable longer videos."
"we need to add functionality where you can like a tweet without it becoming. Without advertising the fact that you liked it to the world"
"we have this challenge of trying to add view count to tweets, which I think is really going to make the site pop"
"you need to actually be able to post a sufficiently long video. If you cannot do that, then nothing else matters."
"It's not clear to me you should actually have a Twitter account at all. Unless you need to make a write action."
"We are going to great lengths to avoid the Wikipedia left wing editorial control problem. By the same token, Community Notes cannot be biased towards the right either. Maximizing for truth is the goal."
"I thought Twitter would perhaps accelerate progress versus creating something from scratch by three to five years"
"a maximally trusted sort of digital public square"
"Twitter be the best source of Truth"
"Twitter should be uh a Town Square"
"Critically, Community Notes applies equally to every account on this platform without exception, including world leaders & our biggest advertisers"
"For a Community Note to be shown widely, it must be approved by multiple reviewers with different viewpoints. If both left & right wing reviewers agree on a Note, then it is highly likely to be accurate! This is a big part of the (not) secret sauce. It is all open source."
"Anyone making materially false statements on this platform will get Community Noted, including you, me, Tucker, advertisers, head of state, etc. No exceptions. Convince the people and let the chips fall where they may. @CommunityNotes"
"As more note reviewers from a particular viewpoint pile on, the weight of their note review decreases, thus counteracting brigade / dogpile attacks. Everything is open source & critique is welcome."
"The power of @CommunityNotes to combat actual disinformation is incredible. At its core, it requires people with diverse viewpoints to agree that a note is valid before it is shown. Very hard to game and fully open source."
"News orgs like to control the narrative & hate being corrected, but at least people know they can come to this platform for a more accurate understanding of the world"
"Community Notes will defend us from the deepfakes"
"It’s pretty wild in the Notes world! Many intense battles for best note. We continue to watch carefully for any gaming of the system."
"Community Notes plus user comments will be great for correcting or adding context"
"Community Notes contributors are almost exactly balanced across the political spectrum. The key to the success of @CommunityNotes is that many people of diverse viewpoints must agree that a note is needed & correct before it becomes viewable by the public. This is a profound."
"the aspiration for X is to be the global town square"
"Will consider. In general, since this platform aspires to be the global town square, permanent bans should be extremely rare. Also, if he does say something false on this platform, then @CommunityNotes will correct him, whereas that would not be the case elsewhere. Let’s hold a poll:"
"Community Notes is both incorrect here and should not use information from a company’s website as the fundamental source of truth about their products"
"you can think of the X platform or social media in general as kind of a collective Consciousness or group mind and you want to have as much signal and as little noise as possible."
"So this is why we've moved to sort of a subscription where there's at least a small monthly payment."
"when you look at the traffic numbers, the traditional media is down, but X is up."
"And you can just think of it like a giant brain, basically."
"best source of Truth"
"Utterly false. All Community Notes code *and* data is open source, so you can confirm independently whether any community note will be shown. I cannot remove notes on my posts or anyone else’s. @CommunityNotes"
"number one way that people actually are informed"
"This note will soon get downvoted, but it is nonetheless concerning. All data and code is open source, so let’s figure out what happened here."
"Community Notes corrects all accounts: Presidents of countries, media, government agencies, advertisers. No exceptions. Nothing is perfect, but Notes is the best source of truth on the Internet by far."
"I don’t decide what gets community noted. All software and data for @communitynotes is open source and no exceptions are made for me or anyone. Looking at the proposed notes, the leading ones fit your description. I recommend signing up to rate notes. Notes are only displayed if people of historical different viewpoints agree that a note is accurate."
"As always, suggestions for improving Community Notes are much appreciated. The aspiration of this platform is to be by far the best source of truth on Earth. Nothing will ever be perfect, but we shall strive to be less wrong every day."
"goal of X is to be the best source of Truth on the internet"
"Very well, he will be reinstated, provided he does not violate the law, and let him be crushed by the comments and Community Notes. It is better to have anti whatever out in the open to be rebutted than grow simmering in the darkness."
"And we’re super open to criticism! Goal is to make this the free speech public square for all views, not just right-biased. But it would be hypocritical of me to be a free speech advocate and then not exercise my own right to free speech!"
"It’s awesome. All Community Notes code AND data is open source, so you can recreate the results yourself."
"Hear all sides of an issue on this platform, corrected further by the fully open source @CommunityNotes!"
"The best way to ensure that @CommunityNotes are as accurate as possible is to become a contributor. The system is completely decentralized and open source, both code and data. Any manipulation would show up like a neon sore thumb! No one at 𝕏, including me, has any editorial control. The way the system works is that people who have historically disagreed must agree that a note is valid for it to be shown."
"𝕏 is the global town square, the group chat of Earth"
"X is definitely improving. It's mean it's evolved a lot from Twitter"
"It’s fundamentally important to have a global town square, where everyone can communicate within the bounds of the laws of countries. Done right, this is the collective mind of humanity."
"While at times the discussion on 𝕏 can become negative, it’s still good that there is a discussion happening. 𝕏 is the global town square."
"kind of a global town square"
"freedom of speech is is the bedrock of democracy"
"𝕏 is the global town square"
"𝕏 is the global town square"