Everyone gives Elon credit for Community Notes, but that was around long before he came on the scene. Community Notes used to be called Birdwatch and it was created in 2021. The maligned Twitter Trust and Safety department invented the idea; Elon just dumped gas on the fire.

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the free speech crowd (myself included) also freaked out about it at the time

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I believe I understand wym but for clarity’s sake can you say if that’s a good or bad freak out haha

perception that hall monitors were going to brigade their culture war opponents and twitter would become a woke cop cesspool