Twitter CEO Elon Musk has praised the platform’s Community Notes feature for “ending censorship in guise of virtue” and handing control of the “narrative” back to ordinary people.
Musk made the comments in a tweet responding to Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, who wrote on the platform that Twitter was previously “a place where false narratives were protected and promoted.”
Dillon stated that under Musk’s leadership, Twitter has transformed into a place where false narratives are “challenged and corrected” thanks to its Community Notes feature, which allows Twitter users to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading tweets.
Under the feature, contributors can leave notes under any tweets across the platform and, if enough contributors from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note publically appears under the tweet….