Community Notes On X Debunk COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation, Study Finds

MedPage Today (4/24, Robertson) reports, “The Community Notes feature, an open-source misinformation countermeasure introduced to X (formerly Twitter) in 2022, was successful in correcting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in viral posts, a study suggested.” In “205 randomly sampled Community Notes on posts mentioning COVID vaccination, 97% were entirely accurate, 2% were partially accurate, and 0.5% were inaccurate, reported” researchers. The majority of these “notes cited high or moderate credibility sources (49% and 44%, respectively), while 7% cited low credibility sources, they detailed in a research letter published in JAMA.”