Elon Musk obviously no longer thinks that crowdsourcing fact-checking through Community Notes can never ever be controlled and is, therefore, the very best method to fix bad posts on his social networks platform X.

Neighborhood Notes are expected to be contributed to posts to restrict false information spread after a broad agreement is reached amongst X users with varied perspectives on what corrections are required. Musk now declares a “fix” is required to avoid allegedly outdoors influencers from apparently video gaming the system.

“Unfortunately, @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media,” Musk composed on X. “Working to fix this.”

Musk’s statement followed Community Notes were contributed to X posts going over a survey producing beneficial rankings for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That survey was performed by a personal Ukrainian business in collaboration with a state university whose supervisory board was designated by the Ukrainian federal government, developing what Musk appears to consider as a dispute of interest.

Other independent ballot just recently recorded a comparable boost in Zelenskyy’s approval ranking, NBC News reported, the particular survey mentioned in X notes opposed Donald Trump’s claim that Zelenskyy is undesirable, and Musk appeared to anticipate X notes ought to rather be supplying context to safeguard Trump’s perspective. Musk even recommended that by indicating the allegedly government-linked survey in Community Notes, X users were spreading out false information.

“It should be utterly obvious that a Zelensky[y]-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible!!” Musk composed on X.

Musk’s attack on Community Notes is rather unexpected. He has actually constantly kept that Community Notes aren’t “perfect,” he has actually safeguarded Community Notes through numerous European Union probes challenging their efficiency and stated that the objective of the crowdsourcing effort was to make X “by far the best source of truth on Earth.” At CES 2025, X CEO Linda Yaccarino boasted that Community Notes are “good for the world.”

Yaccarino welcomed audience members to “think about it as this global collective consciousness keeping each other accountable at global scale in real time,” Simply one month later on, Musk is unexpectedly casting doubts on that characterization while the European Union continues to penetrate X.

Maybe most substantially, Musk formerly firmly insisted as just recently as in 2015 that Community Notes might not be controlled, even by Musk. He highly challenged a 2024 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate that declared that harmful X users were downranking precise notes that they personally disagreed with, declaring any effort at video gaming Community Notes would stand out like a “neon sore thumb.”