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# 5 x.com/JoeBiden/sta...

# 4 x.com/elonmusk/sta...

# 3 x.com/elonmusk/sta...

#2 x.com/TuckerCarlso...

Ranking of tweets with the most community notes:

#1 x.com/realDonaldTr...

Same here except this one interestingly... 😎

But FB DSA Transparency report says ~19m posts demoted* as "fact-checked misinformation", mostly automated but ~11k not, from 01.04.24-30.09.24 i.e. ~100k auto and ~63 non-auto per day. EU also seems to have ~3x as many fact-checkers as USA.

* Not removed, as "censorship" narrative may suggest.

Just from some quick word searches you can find topics you're interested in. Here, for instance, are text notes mentioning all of "AI", "generate", and "biden".

German politics watchers: this "we said we wouldn't coalition with far-right but turns out alternatives are too complicated" in Austria is what I worry about for next #Bundestagswahl in Germany, but I've been told this is still unlikely from CDU. Any views?

www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

12/ As well as manual coding, we tested systematic at-scale methods (e.g. semantic maps like below). Hard to summarise all we tried, read the full report, but basically: range of possible issues = no clear one-size-fits-all method, different approaches for different issues (i.e. lots of work...)

9/ But still much better than Google or OpenAI, who didn't engage. In fact, we got this from OpenAI.

This led to a bigger issue. These bots block automated collection, so we had to use APIs, which may not reflect how "real" bots behave. But we couldn't get support from companies to get round this.

/3 We used regional DE elections at start & of Sept, and published interim results inbetween, to track changes and see if/how companies responded.

One big and cool change to see was our interim findings immediately impacting Microsoft Copilot's safeguards - see graph below.

@algorithmwatch.bsky.social ending 2024 with a new LLMs & elections report. Also a test of DSA 40.4 Data Access - we even got data!

Key points in thread 👇 (while travelling so maybe installments). Was quite a process, so lots to say!

@clarahelming.bsky.social

algorithmwatch.org/en/llms_stat...

Delighted to announce the prizewinner for "most ironic place to be stuck on a stationary train"

Some favourite moments from the X DSA Audit Report.

(I actually think the auditor, FTI Consulting seems to have done an ok job with, erm, dodgy material) transparency.x.com/content/dam/...