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About

The NoteTracker Dashboard is an app for discovering and analyzing X posts with Community Notes attached. The app is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of X’s Community Notes data, enabling users to easily analyze the information, identify issues, and uncover opportunities to improve crowdsourced content moderation systems. Posts are flagged by contributors who participate in X's Community Notes program, where contributors, rather than expert fact-checkers, provide context about a post and adjudicate its accuracy. Contributors can publicly annotate post using one of 7 available labels:

1. Factual Error
2. Manipulated Media
3. Missing Important Context
4. Outdated Information
5. Unverified Claim as Fact
6. Satire
7. Other

The NoteTracker Dashboard is unique in that it can display Community Notes that have not yet met the visibility criteria on the X platform. It features two types of notes:

• Not-yet-visible notes – Notes that haven't met the criteria and are not visible to the general public.
• Visible notes – Notes that have met the required threshold and are considered helpful and accurate by the community.

How Notes Become (and Stay) Visible on X

The Community Notes system is dynamic and updates continuously as more contributors rate notes. If a note that initially qualified for visibility later falls below the required thresholds (for example, it’s no longer considered helpful by a diverse group of contributors), it may be removed from public view. For a note to be visible and stay visible on X, it must meet the following criteria:

• Accuracy and Helpfulness – The note must provide valuable, relevant context or clarification.
• Approval by the Community – Other contributors vote on notes, and the community determines whether a note is credible.
• Meet Rating Thresholds – A note must receive enough positive votes and meet certain benchmarks to be verified for visibility.

How to Sign Up for X's Community Notes

For more information about Community Notes and how to sign up to become a Community Notes member, visit the X Community Notes Guide.

Why Community Notes Alone Aren’t Enough

Crowdsourced content moderation systems such as X Community Notes and Meta Community Notes can play a role in reducing the spread of misinformation on social media, however they are not a replacement for human fact-checkers. As our dashboard shows, ~ 90% of proposed community notes on X never become visible on the X app. A crowdsourced solution that rejects ~90% of the crowd's submissions is unlikely to build long-term trust or engagement.