Kirt in Queensland<p>Can some diverse non-morons please join Twitter's crowdsourced fact checking <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityNotes</span></a> FKA <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BirdWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirdWatch</span></a> </p><p>Currently it seems inaccurately guessed trivia has broad appeal, but not actual fact checking!</p><p>Half arsed "NASA says its a sphere" checks on flat earth tweets are the current standard.</p><p>None of my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityNotes</span></a> about science or medical misinformation are showing. They all say: </p><p>"Needs more ratings · Not shown on Twitter" <a href="https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/contributing/notes-on-twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">communitynotes.twitter.com/gui</span><span class="invisible">de/en/contributing/notes-on-twitter</span></a> </p><p>Even if you don't have the time or the spoons to write anything, you can rate things others have written to help informative notes get displayed to people on the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BirdSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirdSite</span></a> </p><p>Most annoyingly, I just noticed my ONLY <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityNote</span></a> currently showing on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a> is one that in retrospect i think might be wrong, and is also very trivial. It's about tomatoes price marked in £ and the tweet says they're from Spain, i suggested they might be in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gibraltar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibraltar</span></a> 🇬🇮 … but now i think that tweet was probably just a dumb joke.</p><p>please help… <a href="https://twitter.com/i/flow/join-birdwatch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/i/flow/join-birdwa</span><span class="invisible">tch</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/CommunityNotesRequests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityNotesRequests</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TwitterCommunityNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwitterCommunityNotes</span></a></p>