Twitter makes notes on tweets from its crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch visible to all US users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Ahead of the US midterms, Twitter expands its Birdwatch fact-checking tool, adding 1,000 contributors weekly, each assigned a “rating impact” score out of five  —  On the heels of a report detailing how Twitter had once accidentally allowed a conspiracy theorist into its invite …

Corin Faife / The Verge:
Data analysis of Twitter’s Birdwatch crowdsourced moderation tool: posts regarding COVID and “stop the steal” misinformation have been top areas of focus  —  Analysis by The Verge shows that Birdwatch users regularly tackle misinformation topics with the highest stakes, including pandemic response

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter’s Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, starts rolling out to all users globally  —  Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday.

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter’s Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, starts rolling out to all users globally  —  Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday.

Bloomberg:
Sources and analysis: Twitter’s Community Notes doesn’t address lies that are divisive; 30K+ or ~96% of notes contributed by community are not visible to users  —  After Elon Musk closed his $44 billion deal for Twitter, he tweeted that the network’s mission was to become “the most accurate source of information about the world.”

Washington Post:
A look at Birdwatch, soon to be renamed Community Notes, as Twitter scales back professional debunkings: 194 people submitted notes posted in the past month  —  In private chats, a cadre of volunteers is shaping a new approach to misinformation — one Elon Musk has endorsed as he scales back on professional debunkings