Lately Twitter / X community notes have been fighting back against misinformation about vaping and THR (Tobacco Harm Reduction).

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It is such a wonderful thing to see – that the public are able to counteract blatant lies from large organisations!

What Are Community Notes?

On the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) there is a method to directly dispute a claim in a post / tweet.com notes explain

I quote below from X’s community notes explanation page…

“Community Notes aim to create a better informed world by empowering people on X to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading posts. Contributors can leave notes on any post and if enough contributors from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note will be publicly shown on a post. Sign up to become a contributor.

Community Notes are now publicly visible to everyone in the US. For more information, we have included responses to frequently asked questions below, but you can learn more through the Community Notes Guide as well.

This is an open and transparent process, that’s why we’ve made the Community Notes algorithm open source and publicly available on GitHub, along with the data that powers it so anyone can audit, analyze or suggest improvements.”

You can sign up to be a community notes contributor here or simply vote on informative notes you see whilst scrolling through your timeline.

Find out more in this article from X about Community notes.

How Have Community Notes Been Fighting Misinformation?

One of the best examples are the anti-vaping tweets from the WHO (World Health Organisation).

who com noteNearly every ill-informed anti-vaping post they make is suffixed with a well-researched community note. These notes include reputable sources which directly address the claims in the post.

A few examples are below – much love to X user de vangrailmaaier (ACVODA) (of the Acvoda foundation which is a Dutch group of vaping consumers) for collating some of these!

Please sign up to join in to help fight misinformation or just vote on the notes you view as helpful. You will be asked specifically why you find it helpful and will be given a choice of options.

I love this method of counteracting bizarre claims made online! Big up the democratic community notes system!

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Michelle Jones

I am an engineer and Technical Author by trade. My journey in vaping began around 2016, in the days of Tornado tanks, Ego batteries and Variable Voltage. It took me a few years to fully quit smoking but I finally stopped in June 2019 and that is all thanks to vaping! 20mg Nicotine Salts are my hero! Oh and I am partial to a nice pod mod and Bubblegum e-liquid! I have reported on the latest news on Ecigclick since 2017 and love being part of this great team! My passion for Tobacco Harm Reduction has also led me to becoming a Trustee for the NNA (New Nicotine Alliance) aiding in Advocacy

Michelle Jones
https://nnalliance.org/nna-uk/board
I am an engineer and Technical Author by trade. My journey in vaping began around 2016, in the days of Tornado tanks, Ego batteries and Variable Voltage. It took me a few years to fully quit smoking but I finally stopped in June 2019 and that is all thanks to vaping! 20mg Nicotine Salts are my hero! Oh and I am partial to a nice pod mod and Bubblegum e-liquid! I have reported on the latest news on Ecigclick since 2017 and love being part of this great team! My passion for Tobacco Harm Reduction has also led me to becoming a Trustee for the NNA (New Nicotine Alliance) aiding in Advocacy
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