Twitter Community Notes feature is now available in these new countries – Times of India

Twitter has announced that its community fact-check programme, called Community Notes feature, will now be available to four more countries, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The programme will now enable participants from these countries “to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading tweets.”
“We are now admitting contributors from the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand — welcome to Community Notes! We admit new contributors in batches, growing the contributor base by 10% per week,” Twitter announced. It also said the programme will be expanded and people from other countries will be added.
“We’re monitoring quality and continuing to expand to new countries over time,” the company tweeted.
What are Twitter Community Notes
Community Notes aims to curtail misinformation and “create a better-informed world.” In this programme, participants can add, in a collaborative manner, notes to bring helpful context to tweets that they think are potentially misleading.
In November, the programme was renamed to Community Notes from Birdwatch. At that time, the company said that it plans on expanding the feature to other locations “as soon as we can.”

How does Community Notes work
As per Twitter, Community Notes do not represent the company’s viewpoint and cannot be edited/ modified, removed or labelled by its teams “unless it is found to be violating the Twitter Rules, Terms of Service, or our Privacy Policy.” It is to be noted that a participant can be removed from accessing Community Notes in case he/ she fails to abide by the rules.
Participants willing to contribute can sign up for the programme. They won’t get note writing privileges right away, instead, they have to earn it by first submitting ratings of other notes. These ratings – Helpful and Not Helpful – must turn out to agree with the wider consensus.
Contributors can also “lose the privilege by consistently writing notes rated not helpful by their peers.” Participants of the programme can leave notes on any tweet and if enough of them “from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note will be publicly shown on a tweet.”
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