Community notes can help counter COVID-19 vax misinformation on X (formerly Twitter)

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Among the measures to help counter COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on X (formerly Twitter), crowdsourced 'community notes' were introduced in 2022. Now, US scientists have analysed 657 of these and say the notes they looked at primarily addressed adverse events and conspiracy theories, were accurate, cited moderate and credible sources, and were generally attached to posts that had been viewed hundreds of millions of times. Community notes provide an opportunity for the healthcare community to push back against mis- and disinformation about vaccines on social media, they say, and improve vaccine education among the public.

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Funder: This work was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (grant UL1TR001442) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Dr Leas acknowledges salary support from grant K01DA054303 from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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