Introducing Lightning Notes ⚡ People want fast notes. So we re-architected the system to score notes faster. Since rolling this out, we’ve seen notes go live in as little as 14m33s after being written, and 18m20s after the post itself was written. Ludicrously fast? Now reality! Think about what needs to happen for useful context to be added to a post: • Post has to be seen • Post has to be evaluated — is it accurate? is the image real? is the video from today or 5 years ago? etc • Sources need to be found — reverse image search? original video? raw data? helpful article or analysis? • Proposed context needs to be written • Proposed context needs to be reviewed by people from different perspectives for helpfulness, accuracy, etc Thanks to Community Notes’ 800k+ global contributors and our new scoring architecture, it is now possible for this entire process to happen in under 20 minutes. Contributors can also write notes on specific images or videos. These media notes show automatically on new posts with matching media, without any additional work from contributors. Speed matters. External research made possible by notes’ open source data has shown that notes reduce sharing of posts by ~60%, increase deletion of posts by ~80%, and are highly accurate. On top of that, notes are found helpful by people from different perspectives, and people from across the political spectrum find notes significantly more trustworthy than traditional misinformation flags. See the studies: In the past two weeks: • Over 400 notes started showing <1hr after being written. They’re automatically showing on over 8000 posts and have been seen over 200M times. • Over 60 notes starting showing <1hr after the post itself went live. They’re automatically showing on over 1000 posts and have been seen over 21M times. Now, when you see a note that goes live in under 60 minutes, you’ll see a lightning indicator on it, recognizing the incredible work of contributors who make this happen: Want to help? • Everyone: If you see a post you think would benefit from a note, Request a Community Note • Contributors: Check your Needs Your Help tab to see notes that could go live quickly with your ratings: • Top Writers: Check your Note Requests tab to see posts that people think could use your help: