Twitter Extends Community Notes to Quote Tweets

The crowdsourced fact-checking initiative was originally known as Birdwatch

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Twitter extended its Community Notes crowdsourced fact-checking initiative to quote tweets.

The company said in a tweet from its Community Notes account, “This change boosts the impact of contributors’ efforts and helps ensure that context is shown everywhere it can be helpful. Live now in the web app, and coming soon to iOS and Android.”

Twitter owner Elon Musk added in a tweet of his own, “Twitter is arguably already the least wrong source of truth on the internet, but we obviously still have a long way to go.

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