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243 points Jimmc414 | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.263s | source
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aeternum ◴[13 Nov 24 21:49 UTC] No.42130415[source]▶
Real reason: The Guardian can't handle when readers community note them using.. The Guardian.

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1821189070401249385/p...

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anunes ◴[13 Nov 24 22:07 UTC] No.42130621[source]▶
Are community notes impartial?
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fwip ◴[13 Nov 24 22:28 UTC] No.42130873[source]▶
Community notes are not impartial, they are written and approved by the users who sign up to do so (and actually take the time to do this unpaid labor).

Thus, they tend to reflect the biases of the kind of people who most want to (and have time to) write and approve community notes, drawn from the pool of people who use your site.

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1. tim333 ◴[14 Nov 24 12:47 UTC] No.42135694[source]▶
It works quite well in practice. The unapproved notes are a bit all over the place in terms of bias and or being wrong but the ones that get enough votes to be shown are mostly fairly factually correct.