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Jay Baxter: evaluation

27 Feb 2025 Lenny's Podcast An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead)

“One distinction that I would make, which maybe can come off as nitpicky but I think is important, is Community Notes adds additional context.”

— Jay Baxter

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Jay Baxter
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27 Feb 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Yeah. And again, it's just like this sounds like the holy grail of understanding what is true and it actually works. And works so well that Meta recently, as you all know, decided to adopt this exact system for them instead of having tens of thousands of fact checkers reviewing things. One distinction that I would make, which maybe can come off as nitpicky but I think is important, is Community Notes adds additional context. It's not fact-checking necessarily, right? So there are cases where the post could be true. But maybe, it's just misleading because there there's no context or there's missing context. We cover those cases and I think that's an important distinction. We just have the philosophy that users should be able to make up their own minds, right? Like, "Here's extra context, take it or leave it," right? Yeah. What I think about, you shared this with me, this example of a picture with a cat and somebody's Community Note was just, "That's a dog." Or is it the other way around or that's a-…

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