[OC] Amid Elon Musk’s Attacks on the “Legacy Media,” It Is Professional Journalism That Provides the Backbone to Many Fact Checks on X

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  1. **Source: Bloomberg analysis of X Community Notes**

    **Created with: Bloomberg Toaster & Canva**

    *Meta is giving up its professional fact-checkers in favor of Community Notes, the same system Elon Musk uses on X. And it’s happening today.*

    *But will the new crowdsourced process help stop misinformation? Dave Lee and Carolyn Silverman looked at 1.1 million examples of Community Notes on X.*

    [*See all the data here (no paywall).* ](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-03-18/community-notes-on-x-and-meta-can-t-save-social-media-from-itself)

  2. Populists and fascists always attack “media”. Thats because media in democracies typically have the role of challenging leaders and showing when they are wrong to the benefit of the country and people.

    So when you see Trump, Elon and all the other horrible individuals going after objective media and facts – its just them repeating history.

  3. It’s very natural.
    Without information from mass media, author posting community note can hardly points out the false things objectively.

  4. How many of those “legacy media links” are just mild editorial with a screenshot of a tweet or short clip from a video posted to X or YouTube.

  5. LOL, so-called “mainstream” media also provide all the actual facts, unless you think it’s news when someone pulls an arbitrary opinion out of their ass or films a shaky handy video. It’s not as if “X” or “TikTok” have a vast network of correspondents with film crews and producers…

  6. Oh that explains why he hates Wikipedia. It’s the largest source of facts hurting his platform’s propaganda.

  7. Every single “news” outlet lied about covid. Every single one of them. Repeatedly, for years, and still are. Who is this “Professional Journalism” referred to?

  8. Sadly it is harder to find professional journalists these days… the business of media has corrupted the media.

  10. All MSM outlets should pull all accounts from X and Meta, and refuse links to/from those places.

  11. Grey portion shows that X has by far the most effective fact checking system.

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