X Community Notes
Hacker ApprovedCrowdsourced fact-checking
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.
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.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Helps counter false information
“Community notes has done so much to help obvious and blatantly false information on X.”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “EFF is leaving X” “Twitter has community notes which fills the role pretty well”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos” “highlights how useful X's community notes can be”
Comment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode” Crowd-sourced voting system praised
“something like the Community Notes algorithm on X could be a good example”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Tech Needs Humanists More” “the voting system X uses for community notes is pretty neat”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Arrives after posts go viral
“Community notes typically kicks in after the tweet has already gone insanely viral. It’s not useless, but I wonder about its effectiveness.”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines” “Community notes tend to be a day late and a dollar short though.”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices” Politicized and easily manipulated
“Community Notes became a hidden ideological battle ground”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “I Built an AI Bot to Fact-Check the Midterms. Here's What I've Learned” “they are quite flawed as well and easily manipulated”
Comment from 7 Oct 2026 in “Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy”
What people said
All 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Community Notes became a hidden ideological battle ground”
“they are quite flawed as well and easily manipulated”
“something like the Community Notes algorithm on X could be a good example”
“Community notes tend to be a day late and a dollar short though.”
“The best solution for now seams to be what twitter is doing with community notes.”
“it's ultimately a positive thing to have a mechanism for users to flag content”
“At least X has Community Notes.”
“Twitter has community notes which fills the role pretty well”
“Community notes has done so much to help obvious and blatantly false information on X.”
“at least not nearly as disruptive and usually provides a link”
“Community notes typically kicks in after the tweet has already gone insanely viral. It’s not useless, but I wonder about its effectiveness.”
“I appreciate Community Notes and Grok for the closest thing to a real-time ability to call it out that exists.”
“highlights how useful X's community notes can be”
“the voting system X uses for community notes is pretty neat”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.