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Fact Checking Emerges as Latest Front in the Ideological Twitter Wars

‘Naturally, those who used to control the narrative and censored views they disliked are less than thrilled,’ Elon Musk says of his new Community Notes feature.

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The Twitter splash page on a digital device, April 25, 2022. AP/Gregory Bull, file
CAROLINE McCAUGHEY
CAROLINE McCAUGHEY

Community Notes are the new battlefield of the Twitter wars. The left is complaining that the user-generated fact-checking tool is dominated by right wing accounts, and the right is celebrating that Twitter executives are no longer in sole control of what is deemed “misinformation.”

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CAROLINE McCAUGHEY
CAROLINE McCAUGHEY

Ms. McCaughey is a native New Yorker who covers politics and policy. Her work has appeared in the New York Post, New York Daily News, Fox News, and other publications.

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