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X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers

Columbia Journalism Review · C.J. Robinson · last updated

Last month, videos of the No Kings protests circulated online among extensive news coverage. One MSNBC clip on X, showing large crowds in Boston, was appended with a proposed Community Note stating the video was actually from 2017. The fact-checking note was still a draft and only visible to certain X users. It was never approved by X’s moderation system—but screenshots of it spread anyhow, providing the basis for a now-deleted tweet from Senator Ted Cruz. This sparked public accusations of manipulation against MSNBC. But the note was wrong. The video was from October’s No Kings protest, according to both NewsGuard and the BBC. 

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