# X Community Notes

10 Hacker News commenters recommended X Community Notes and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Lets users add context to posts, and people say it has helped flag false information on X. Critics say it often arrives late and can be manipulated.

## Why people recommend it

- Helps counter false information (3 comments): "Community notes has done so much to help obvious and blatantly false information on X." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707756)) "Twitter has community notes which fills the role pretty well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301788)) "highlights how useful X's community notes can be" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177393))
- Crowd-sourced voting system praised (2 comments): "something like the Community Notes algorithm on X could be a good example" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842915)) "the voting system X uses for community notes is pretty neat" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882526))

## What people warn about

- Arrives after posts go viral (2 comments): "Community notes typically kicks in after the tweet has already gone insanely viral. It’s not useless, but I wonder about its effectiveness." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565310)) "Community notes tend to be a day late and a dollar short though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464681))
- Politicized and easily manipulated (2 comments): "Community Notes became a hidden ideological battle ground" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50210430)) "they are quite flawed as well and easily manipulated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996679))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "X Community Notes", https://hackerapproved.com/p/x-community-notes/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).