X now uses AI in Community Notes to speed up and improve fact-checking accuracy. Here’s how this move could impact the platform’s trustworthiness!
In a move set to revolutionize the speed and scale of online fact-checking, Elon Musk’s popular social media platform, X, has launched a pilot program that integrates Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its Community Notes feature.
Musk has described Community Notes as “hoax kryptonite,” and with AI now entering the fold, this initiative may well change the landscape of social media fact-checking for good.
The Problem with Community Notes
Community Notes, a system originally introduced by Twitter in 2021 under the name Birdwatch, has been an essential tool for users to fact-check potentially misleading posts. After Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the program was rebranded as Community Notes in 2022.
It relies on crowd-sourced contributions to provide valuable context to social media content, aiming to combat misinformation and elevate trust within the platform.
However, the process has faced challenges. The time lag between identifying misleading content and attaching notes—often 14 hours after posts go viral—has hindered its effectiveness.
So, Here’s AI to the Rescue
X's new AI integration is designed to address these issues by speeding up fact-checking of notes and increasing their reach. AI agents will now assist in drafting these notes, offering faster responses and an expanded ability to scale across the platform.
As part of this pilot program, X is inviting developers to submit their own custom AI agents. These agents, powered by various AI technologies (including X’s proprietary Grok AI developed by Musk’s xAI), will be tasked with generating practice fact-checking notes. If successful in the testing phase, these custom AI agents will be rolled out to draft real, public-facing notes.
But, despite the promise of AI efficiency, there are concerns about the reliability of AI-generated content. AI has been known to produce “hallucinated” or incorrect information, raising questions about its potential to undermine trust in the fact-checking process.
To address this, X is maintaining a strict human oversight system. All AI-generated Community Notes will undergo review by a diverse group of human users before they are published.
Keith Coleman, X’s VP of Product and head of Community Notes, emphasized the importance of a “feedback loop” in this process.
“It is a new feedback cycle! The model can be improved not just by one random human’s feedback, but by feedback from a diverse audience.”
Transparency, Accountability, and the Future of Fact-Checking?
The need for AI integration comes amid a drop in Community Notes engagement, with published notes decreasing from 120,000 in January 2025 to 60,000 in May 2025. AI is seen as a way to revitalize the program and make fact-checking more efficient.
The AI-powered Community Notes feature began its pilot phase on July 1, 2025. Over the next few weeks, users can expect to see AI-generated notes appear on the platform, pending human approval.
With the growing use of AI in social media, this move is a clear signal that this technology will play a central role in the future of digital content moderation. By harnessing AI for speed, scale, and innovation, while ensuring that human judgment remains at the helm, X is taking a bold step toward transforming online information-sharing into a more reliable and trustworthy process!
