The NoteTracker Dashboard is a searchable database of X's Community Notes. Notes are created by X's contributors (users) and by specialized AI bots, rather than by professional fact-checkers. The dashboard is designed for journalists, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in knowing more about crowdsourced fact-checking.

Data Source

The dashboard pulls data directly from X’s Community Notes. It includes both publicly visible notes and proposed notes that are still being evaluated. Notes can be written on any post, not only those considered misleading, and the dashboard may include notes that ultimately never meet the thresholds for public display. (See our Dataset Statistics page for more details)

A Key Feature of the Dashboard

A key feature of the dashboard is its ability to display both visible notes (those shown publicly on X) and not-yet-visible notes (proposed notes that have not yet met the visibility thresholds).

Extended Definitions:

• Visible notes are those that meet X’s required scoring thresholds, including helpfulness ratings and consensus criteria, have been rated as helpful, and are publicly shown directly below the relevant post on X.
• Not-yet-visible notes are proposed notes that are still being evaluated. They may be newly submitted or still gathering ratings and have not yet met the thresholds required to appear publicly on X. The NoteTracker Dashboard highlights these notes, allowing you to track trends, early corrections or emerging disputes around a post.

About X’s Community Notes 

Community Notes is X’s crowdsourced fact-checking program. This program allows contributors, eg, X users, to add context or corrections to posts, images, or videos that are misleading. For details on participating in the program, refer to the X Community Notes Guide.

Contributors can add context to a post using one of the following labels:

1. Factual Error – the post contains a factual error;
2. Manipulated Media – the post contains a digitally altered photo or video;
3. Missing Important Context – the post contains a misrepresentation or missing important context;
4. Outdated Information – the post contains outdated information that may be misleading;
5. Unverified Claim as Fact – the post contains an unverified claim that is being presented as a fact;
6. Satire – the post contains a joke or satire that might be misinterpreted as a fact;
7. Other – a “catch” category for posts that don’t fit any of the above labels.

How Community Notes Become Visible on X

Visibility is determined by an open-source algorithm that updates continuously and accounts for the following criteria:

• Bridging Perspectives: A note must be found helpful by contributors who typically disagree in their past ratings to ensure cross-viewpoint consensus (not a majority vote).
• High-Quality Context: Ratings must confirm the note cites quality sources, directly addresses the specific claim, and uses neutral language.
• Dynamic Scoring: The note must maintain a high “Helpfulness” score based on the agreement of “diverse” contributors to appear (and remain visible) on the respective post on X.

Why Community Notes Alone Aren’t Enough

Crowdsourced fact-checking programs like X’s Community Notes offer one way to add potentially helpful context to posts with misleading or false claims, but the model faces significant limitations when used as a standalone solution. 

Although Community Notes-type programs can make a meaningful contribution to content moderation, they have important limitations as they tend to 1) publish only a small share of submitted notes, 2) require a relatively long time for contributors to reach cross-ideological consensus, and 3) cover only a narrow fraction of all posts. 

Further Readings

• Community Notes by X | Mosaic Labs
• How do Twitter community notes work?
• The Oversight Board to Review Meta’s Plans to Expand Community Notes
• Making Meta’s Community Notes Work: Current Challenges and Opportunities
• Meet footnotes, TikTok’s answer to X-style community notes
• TikTok is adding community notes, but it’s taking a different approach than Meta and X