Community Records Contributors On Platform X Now Mandatory To Add Sources

Community Records Contributors must now add sources when proposing notes (photo: Twitter @CommunityNotes)

JAKARTA - Community Notes or Community Records are one of the features that have been platform X, previously on Twitter, upgrading to combat disinformation. However, this feature can also cause problems.

Although the goal is good to provide clarification from someone's upload, some contributors actually include unclear notes, are not important, or are not related to their uploads.

To prevent this from happening again and again, Community Records announced that their policies had changed. Now, contributors need to include sources valid and related to uploads.

By including a source, X believes this step can bring more benefits. In addition, uploads with Notes referring to the source allow readers to verify the contents of their uploads.

X admits that they did not require this policy beforehand because the majority of uploads do not need sources. However, considering that some Notes only refer to upload details and the media, X is starting to realize the importance of sources.

We believe the overall impact of these changes will be positive. Sources are not needed for notes that explain why additional contexts are not needed, "wrote X via today's Community Records account.

Given that this source policy has just been added, X will further monitor its impact. X also stressed that they are trying their best to improve their platform.