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X, formerly called Twitter, is now using community notes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system.

The company's algorithm architect Jay Baxter and its VP of product, Keith Coleman, built it.

Starting with the question, what if the people got to decide what's true?

If people don't trust tech companies to draw the line, could they draw it themselves?

You can download the real data, the community notes and ratings, run the code on the data

to verify that there's no funny business that we're doing on our end.

Like there's no override button.

So it's really by the people.

It's an idea that has earned genuine interest and trust across the political spectrum, even

as it's become entangled in a larger, more contentious debate about

the dismantling of professional fact checkers. In this conversation, Jay and Keith sit down with

TED guest curator and civic technologist Audrey Tang to discuss how community notes actually

works. If we can identify common ground at internet scale,

it'll make it a lot easier to create a future that humanity likes.

They also talk about what they're working on next.

And stick around.

After the talk, we caught up with the TED guest curator,

Audrey Tang and Divya Siddharth,

who share a few more thoughts and takeaways

on community notes for us to consider.

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