The Ledger, every show

“The biggest change there happened in X. The biggest changes prior to that were just the decision to put this out there and you know, and, Have it be operating at, you know, in public at first us wide scale. But yeah, then the big, the bigger switches came in t…”

“Initially, some people inside the company were suggesting like, Hey, why don't you have journalists or, you know, some select group be the first participants, but Very specifically, we're like, no, that's like, we're trying to move away from the idea of curate…”

“First of all, there is no, we don't have a button that will change the status of the note or of a note. So if a note is showing because the people have rated it, And found it helpful. It is going to show. Like, we can't change that.”

“In the first few days of the conflict, the median time from a post going live to a note showing up was five hours, which is like crazy fast. Typical fact checking is like two to four. It's really common to see it take two to four days. These notes were showing…”

“You know, an interesting thing about that is no one ever asked us or brought up or seemed to care about anything related to cost savings in this process. And I think that's like a pro like an assumption people have outside the company that like, this must've b…”

“So every post is eligible for notes. It's, and that was again, another really important principle. It's like, It, we shouldn't exempt Elon. We shouldn't exempt government figures. We should, like everyone, even advertisers can get notes. So any posts on the pl…”

“And over, ah, let's say the last year, 20, 24, we had something like 95,000 notes that were seen about thirty billion times. That's more than double the prior year. Prior year was something like 37 K notes seen fourteen billion times.”

“We probably show about eight percent of notes that get proposed. I think that's, it's been between, let's say, seven percent and 10% or 11%, something like that over time.”

“If you write one that people, you know, people who normally disagree, find not helpful, you actually will ultimately lose your ability to write and have to earn it back.”

“Jack has made fun of it, calling it like the ultimate Facebook name or something like that, but the most boring Facebook name, which is funny because they're now, you know, launching community notes.”

“When, shortly after the acquisition you know, we had this product called Spaces. It was, it had been in the product before, but it was pretty small scale. And Elon wanted to run these large spaces... This is the kind of thing at one point. Oh, that would have …”

“When we built the first mock-ups, we had just, these were just, like, pictures of, you know, depicting what community notes might look like. We showed those to people across the political spectrum. We saw, like, hey, people really like these, whether they're o…”

“There's something like 950,000 contributors around the world. That's, you know, nearing a million people making this happen.”

“Inevitably there's going to be a time gap between when a post goes live and when people figure out what's going on and when they get the note out there. And so we send those notifications to try to close that gap.”

“When we first launched US wide, this was like in two, a note appeared on a white house tweet. And the White House deleted the tweet and reissued an updated statement.”

“Something like a third of employees were leaving every year. So just imagine, like, a third of your team gone every year.”

“We did not assign anyone to this project. Like people reached out to join or they applied to join the job. You know, I and the team interviewed every single person that joined the team and we're like, we want that person on the team. They want to be on the tea…”

“This is, I think, two years before any acquisition stuff happened, Elon is just a Twitter user building rockets and electric cars and other cool stuff, and stumbles on this thing that depicts the prototype that we've been testing, and he writes back, yeah, def…”

“Whenever we update the code, there's, or update the scoring system, there's an update in GitHub when the data is published daily, so you can download it”

“In the first, I think it was like first three days or something of that conflict. We had 500 notes covering all sorts of different you know, like out of context imagery”

“Recently, for example, we just released an update to what we call the community notes bat signal or the ability to request a community note. So we, anyone on X can say, hey, I think this post needs a community note, and now they can even add a source explainin…”

“For a note to be proposed, the person proposing has to have earned the ability to write notes. So there is that, that aspect where you have to, like, earn in to be able to do this. And the way you earn that ability is, is through your ratings by demonstrating …”