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Published on August 16, 2023 11:15 GMT+00:00edited on August 16, 2023 11:19 GMT+00:00

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin views X’s (formerly Twitter) Community Notes feature as a transparent, consensus-driven approach reminiscent of crypto.

In a recent blog post, Buterin provides an in-depth analysis of Community Notes through a crypto lens. Community Notes allow users to append context and fact-checking notes to tweets. The visibility of each note is determined by a publicly verifiable algorithm that aims to surface nonpartisan notes endorsed across ideological divides.

Launched in 2021 as Birdwatch, Community Notes invites users to counter misinformation by contributing fact-checking notes. The algorithm behind Community Notes then scores each note based on peer reviews. Notes rated as “helpful” by a diverse cross-section of politically opposed reviewers are shown …