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In the age of lightning-speed communication, it’s more important now than ever to have good media literacy. It’s how you can tell the difference between misinformation and actual facts. Unfortunately, some people are more than happy to click the reshare button without considering what they’re doing.
The @cnviolations account shares some of the most epic moments when community fact-checkers called out misinformation on X (formerly Twitter). Scroll down to see just how shameless some lies on social media can get... and why informative context is so important!
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As we’ve covered on Bored Panda recently, some people like to believe in conspiracy theories because it gives them a sense of control in a chaotic and confusing world. The scarier and more uncertain a situation is, the more likely that people will cling to theories that, though inaccurate, help them make sense of the world.
Conspiracy theories aren’t backed by evidence. The people who believe in them discount any evidence that doesn’t support them. However, if you’re willing to consider evidence and are open to changing your mind when given solid proof, you’re less likely to fall victim to a conspiracy theory.
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Snap panda 1 year ago
It's really sad that people like this exist. Hate just for the sake of hating.
The world doesn’t objectively become a less complicated place because someone chooses to believe simplistic black-or-white narratives. It’s up to us to look for the nuances and embrace them, even if they’re uncomfortable or don’t match our subjective experiences or political leanings.
A good rule of thumb is to be extremely wary of claims that are overly simplistic or have very clear heroes and villains. The world is more complicated than clean and clear fights between perfect good and total evil. That’s why context, provided by reliable sources, matters so much.
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David Henry 1 year ago
I can't believe we have to tell anyone that but here we find ourselves.
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Little Wonder 1 year ago
If you listen carefully, you can hear the sounds of the vacuum vaginas.
Over 693.6K people follow @cnviolations, aka ‘community notes violating people,’which documents some of the most epic takedowns of misinformation, as done by members of the @communitynotes project—a real program meant to combat lies on X.
The @cnviolations account on X is in no way affiliated with the social network, nor the @communitynotes program. However, indirectly, it shares a lot of comedic moments and also shows to what extent some social media users twist the truth or believe in others’ lies.
The actual Community Notes project has 782.8K followers and describes itself as a collaborative way to add helpful context to posts. This way, everyone using X or reading tweets (or are those called Xs now?) elsewhere, can stay better informed.
Though it’s no panacea, the project does reduce the number of people who are misled. All with the power of helpful notes!
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Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
My cousin uses a wheelchair and he used to be able to cross his legs in one. Unfortunately he can't anymore as he has got weaker but he used to
The people who contribute to the Community Notes mission are regular users of the X social network. They sign up to write and rate notes. As the founders of the project point out, “the more people that participate, the better the program becomes.” It’s not like random notes show up on posts all over X, however.
Only notes that are rated helpful by people “from diverse perspectives” appear on posts.
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BlindAres 1 year ago
It amazes me what people go through to try to prove their superiority to others rather than accepting everyone is equal. Also access to trading platforms have greatly increased along with access to relevant data. Further, calculators that actually do this type of alleged math actually exist. I had one in high school in the mid 90s
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
Most sharks need to have water passing through their gills to breathe, they must be in constant motion. Can we stop pulling them out of their home.
“To identify notes that are helpful to a wide range of people, notes require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings. This helps prevent one-sided ratings,” the Community Notes team explains in detail.
They believe that it’s vital to give X users a voice in providing informative, diverse context to posts on the network.
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RedPepper 1 year ago
Tell me you've never read Shakespeare without telling me you've never read Shakespeare...
Couragetcd 1 year ago
More tell me you've never understood Shakespeare...
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Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
HE DID?! Omg that’s amazing. My favorite Shakespearean insult was “he played that line [of poetry] like a child plays on a recorder” (I’m paraphrasing here cuz I don’t know the exact words) from a Midsummer Nights Dream
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Boootifull Unicorn 1 year ago
much ado about nothing ;) "nothing" in the Elizabethan era was slang for vagina. oops.
Couragetcd 1 year ago
Wow, a fine example of how much care there was for women's satisfaction. At least it's a little better now
Load More Replies... MezzoPiano 1 year ago
It would be easier to list the Shakespeare plays that do *not* have lewdness or sexual behavior.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I had to read some, and yes, they do. People also die or get killed all the time, Shakespeare loves that
Appalachian Panda 1 year ago
He wrote popular entertainments. Sex and violence sell.
Load More Replies... Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! (Not Shakespeare, but Monty Python is still a gem)
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Laura Mortensen 1 year ago
This reminds me of when my partner and I went to see a version of "Cybeline" where characters were shown as being LGBTQ and some girls behind us said "I bet Shakespeare would hate this version." I think he would have loved it. There's theory that he was in love with a boy and wrote about it in his sonnents.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
Off the top of my head, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, I won’t go on…
Morgan Anja Nielsen 1 year ago (edited)
Guess it's just me and my dirty mind misinterpreting everything again ... "Iago: I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs." /Othello ... And again!
Greg Baughman 1 year ago
"We will find the maids, and cut off their heads!" "The heads of the maids?" "Or their maidenheads.... "
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 1 year ago
"You are a saucy boy" - Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5, Line 85
FatKidShakeDown 1 year ago
When performed during Shakespeare's time as a playwright, they contained bawdy fart scenes and lewd, overt sex scenes and jokes.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Still, the answer is not helpful and proves nothing. I found a page that was quite thorough: https://shakespeare-navigators.ewu.edu/romeo/Bawdy.html
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
A lot of them don't feel risque now because our language has changed and the words no longer mean what they did.
M.Kay (He/They) 1 year ago
Romeo and Juliet??? A giant portion of the story is them trying to sleep together so their parents can't break them apart.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
I mean Romeo and Juliet killed themselves cause they were horny for each other
One of the fundamental values of Community Notes is transparency. “All contributions are published daily, and our ranking algorithm can be inspected by anyone,” the founders point out that anyone is able to see how things work “under the hood.” It’s nice to see that they’re staying consistent on the importance of openness in everything that they do.
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Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Didn't he also start beef with Disney and was surprised they took action against him?
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Chairman Miaow 1 year ago
Says someone who once identified as Korean despite being British, and having lived in Korea for ONE YEAR. Now professional sucker-upper and spewer of right wing talking points...
Any contributor can suggest a note on any post. Other contributors then rate those notes. However, it’s not a popularity contest by any means. “Because notes need to genuinely be found helpful by people who tend to disagree, the program is more likely to identify notes that many people find helpful.”
One question that X users have is whether other users can be trusted to add context to other people’s posts.
“We believe regular people can valuably contribute to identifying and adding helpful context to potentially misleading information. Many of the internet’s existing collaborative sites thrive with the help of non-expert contributions—Wikipedia, for example—and, while it’s not a cure-all, research has shown the potential of incorporating crowdsourced-based approaches as part of a broader toolkit to address misleading information on the internet,” the Community Notes team explains.
According to surveys conducted by the project, people were 20 to 40% less likely to agree with potentially misleading posts if they could read a note attached to them.
Which of these misinfo takedowns impressed you the most? Which ones made you giggle? What’s your personal relationship with X been like after it changed its name from Twitter? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comment section after you’ve enjoyed this list to the fullest, dear Pandas.
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Hagebumi 1 year ago
I always washed my turtle's shell from above and below with a soft toothbrush and warm water. This is common, but of course the turtle doesn't like it. A turtle needs a clean shell because it produces vitamins from sunlight. If you don't clean the shell and dirt, moss or algae forms on the shell, the turtle can die.
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BlindAres 1 year ago
And even if he was, is it harmful to advocate for a fair tax system that'll still keep you financially healthy? 25% tax is on that years income from investments, dividends, corporate income, however tf billionaires become billionaires. For example: if you earn $1b in the year and pay 25% tax, that leaves you with 750m that can be used to enrich yourself even more. The initial 750m enrichment investment won't be taxed because it already has been, just the income derived from it. So, if you somehow conservatively earn 5% on that $750m, that leaves $37.5m in taxable income in the proper tax bracket for that income amount per year.
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Snap panda 1 year ago
You would think he didn't have access to the Internet and how to use Google.
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Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Also trauma! Bug infestations of any sort can cause trauma, but bedbugs in particular are prone to causing it due to the physical and mental toll they take.
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WindySwede 1 year ago
the name of the account of OP should tell everything one need to know about the factual correctness of this s**t!
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Serial pacifist 1 year ago
At first I read it as “demonize”. That can be an option too I guess.
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BrownTabby 1 year ago
Reader added context: if you see anything claiming that a young woman is allowed to be a high-ranking politician in Japan, fact check it immediately lmao
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SM 1 year ago
Uber is a scam. They claim they are a service to hook up private citizens, but control everything including what can be charged. And at the same time try to convince governments and such that these people aren't their employees so that they don't have to pay for their benefits. This is how you take an already low paying job in a lot of areas (taxi driver) and ring out money from it to make a few people rich. Another thing I don't understand is that if you ask people these days if they would hitch a ride and they will tell you that no way they would get into a stranger's car.
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MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
From the comments here, I can tell that a lot more people then me on here watch Matt Rose...
Jared Robinson 1 year ago
Some of these are good, some of these are not. Just cause the majority says a thing doesn't mean that thing is correct. Just look at the majority of politicians saying it's okay to genocide the gaza strip.
BTDubs 1 year ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It was really sickening to hear the politicians say "all of them" in response to a question of "how many dead Palestinians are enough?".
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Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago
If I ever learn anything from this website it is this. Keep your fat ignorant mouth shut or face consequences.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
From the comments here, I can tell that a lot more people then me on here watch Matt Rose...
Jared Robinson 1 year ago
Some of these are good, some of these are not. Just cause the majority says a thing doesn't mean that thing is correct. Just look at the majority of politicians saying it's okay to genocide the gaza strip.
BTDubs 1 year ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It was really sickening to hear the politicians say "all of them" in response to a question of "how many dead Palestinians are enough?".
Load More Replies... Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago
If I ever learn anything from this website it is this. Keep your fat ignorant mouth shut or face consequences.
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